On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:21 AM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote:
> gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
>>On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs
>>>>
>>>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm
>>>
>>> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet.
>>
>>That I don't know. I believe the LVM "companion manual" that I am
>>seeking and that I used for previous installs advised against /boot on
>>lvm (probably also /lib and others). Perhaps this was simply
>>reflecting
>>no initramfs. Hence any grub issue with /boot on lvm didn't arise.
>>
>>allan
>
> No.
>
> Grub legacy does not support LVM for the /boot.
> That's why I have it there.
>
> UEFI only understands FAT. Which means you need to have a boot partition
> outside of LVM for that.

Good to know, thanks. Another reason not to use LVM I guess.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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