Feature changed by: Jan E. Jonker (janeppo) Feature #316825, revision 4 Title: Installation on LVM logical volume from Live CD openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Jan E. Jonker (janeppo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: - Proposal: The Live CD installation process supports installing on an - LVM logical volume. + Proposal: The Live CD installation process fully supports installing on + an LVM logical volume. Motivation: It is perfectly possible for an openSUSE 13.1 KDE - installation to sit on an LVM logical volume and the boot process - supports it. - However, the LiveCD warns heavily against installing on a LVM logical - volume. That seems an unnecessary restriction. + installation, including /boot, to sit on an LVM logical volume and to + boot it using grub2. + However, the LiveCD warns heavily against having /boot on an LVM + logical volume and cannot install a grub2 boot configuration on an LVM + volume. Moreover, at least at first sight, the LiveCD cannot add a + logical volume to an existing volume group. These restrictions are + unnecessary. + At present one can 'boot' a boot configuration for openSUSE 13.1 on a + new logical volume as follows: (1) use a non-SUSE distribution (e.g. + Debian) to create a new logical volume, (2) have the LiveCD install + openSUSE 13.1 including the /boot directory on an LVM partition but + without installing a boot configuration, (3) next use a non-SUSE + distribution to boot it and (4) finally install a boot configuration + from and for the newly installed openSUSE. + It will be much cleaner to include LVM2 in the LiveCD, and remove the + current restrictions. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316825