Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754120AbXFPHz6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:55:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbXFPHzv (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:55:51 -0400 Received: from relay4.usu.ru ([194.226.235.39]:60328 "EHLO relay4.usu.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751998AbXFPHzv (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:55:51 -0400 Message-ID: <4673978F.4030001@ums.usu.ru> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:55:59 +0600 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" User-Agent: IceDove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Christian Schmidt , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Help needed: Partitioned software raid > 2TB References: <46727E7C.8060102@digadd.de> <46729C14.5000809@digadd.de> <46737747.1050608@ums.usu.ru> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: ClamAV using ClamSMTP@relay4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 24 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > I am not sure (would have to check again), but I believe both opensuse and > fedora (the latter of which uses LVM for all partitions by default) have > that working, while still using GRUB. Keyword: partitions. I.e., they partition the hard drive (so that the first 31 sectors are available for GRUB) and use LVM on devices such as /dev/hda2. But this is not what was needed. I need to use LVM on /dev/hda, without a partition table. > But, what's much more amazing, is > that GRUB seems to work with raid0 (both BIOS-based and MD)... perhaps > it's just luck that the needed files are contiguous? [wild guess] Maybe they set up a raid1 /boot partition? -- Alexander E. Patrakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/