Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1956 mails)

[Richard Creighton <rccj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
>   
>> On 08/09/2007 10:04 PM, James Knott wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Is /boot on it's own partition, outside of the RAID array?  If you are
>>> using RAID or LVM, /boot has to have it's own partition.  
>>>     
>>>       
>> Wrong.  I think it used to be so (8.0), but I have an md root and home
>> similar to the OP with NO separate boot partition.  I do think grub has
>> to be installed in the MBR though, as was suggested.
>>
>>   
>>     
> I finally got around to trying this.  During install, when I create a
> logical volume on RAID for /boot, I get the error message:
> 'You cannot use the mount point "/boot" for LVM.'
>
>   
Try going to
http://en.opensuse.org/How_to_install_SUSE_Linux_on_software_RAID for an
article that worked for me.   I have 10.3 running on a 1.4TB raid 3 MD
partitions, 1 Raid 0, 1 Raid 1 and 1
Raid 5 partition on 4 drives.   You do not need an external drive to
boot from.


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