On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 21:39:08 -0700, Linda Walsh
Um... are you trying you boot from a separate partition to a RAID or LVM based system and no file system is involved after boot?
Of cause a file system is involved after boot. On my work system it's lvm for the the disk management and xfs as file system for all partitions.
Cuz as near as I can tell, you are trolling.
Didn't you notice that I wrote "sw raid OR lvm"? nowhere did I say raid and lvm.
You need a file system to boot from.
Of cause you do and I never denied it. But booting from lvm requires a separate boot partition as does booting from from a sw raid (be it pure sw or a fake raid (aka BIOS which also uses sw raid, just the setup is done by bios) other than RAID 1 .i.e. mirroring, independent of the boot loader you use.
You could do it with LILO if your SW RAID is on top of lvm (not sure about linux-SW RAID... as it would have to have enough contiguous space on 1 device to read in the kernel. I do know it works with a BIOS-SW RAID as the first device though...
With anything besides RAID 1 it does not work reliably butr only by chance.
create as many partitions at the front of your disk with lvm as you want alternate boots from, and LILO could boot from them.
That would be a too fragile setup and no reason for me to use LILO. I use grub and have come to like the added flexibility grub gives me and I have no problem with an extra ext2 boot partition. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org