Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jun 15 2007 16:03, Christian Schmidt wrote:

> > Thanks for the clarification. I didn't use LVM on the device on purpose,
> > as root on LVM requires initrd (which I strongly dislike as
> > yet-another-point-of-failure). As LVM is on the large partition anyway
> > I'll just add the second partition for now, and change the system setup
> > with the next drive migration. Maybe linux even supports root-on-lvm
> > natively until then ;)
>
> Uh, it does. By means of initrd/ramfs image. Blame your distro if it still
> can't do root-on-LVM, there is at least one who can.

AFAIK, root-on-LVM on the whole disk (BTW, I use such setup myself) requires 
LILO, doesn't it? Could you please list a few distributions with an easy 
method to install LILO (and, of course, root and /boot on LVM on whole disk) 
from their default installation media? So far, I only know that Debian can 
do it if you run debootstrap by hand, although they say that such setup is a 
bug (http://bugs.debian.org/401393).

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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