/dev/sda1 -> /boot failure

[Patrick Nelson]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 14:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>   
>> Patrick Nelson wrote:
>>     
>>> FC4 yum updated
>>>
>>> I have a system that has /boot as its own partition (/dev/sda1).  The
>>> rest of the fs is in a lvm volume group.
>>>
>>> the /dev/sda1 is having some problems which were shown by
>>>
>>> - boot off of rescue cd, mount FC4 instance and chroot to it, then re
>>> login as root
>>> - umount /boot
>>> - fsck -c /dev/sda1
>>>
>>> and I want to move /boot back onto the "/" fs in the volume group, which
>>> I have done by:
>>>
>>> - boot off of rescue cd, mount FC4 instance and chroot to it, then re
>>> login as root
>>> - removed the /boot reference in fstab
>>> - copied /grub dir from old /boot to the new dir
>>> - because the kernel files were corrupted I added the kernels (I usually
>>> keep 2 -> current and 1 version back) back with:
>>> --  rpm -ivh --force --noscript kernel-2.6.17-1.2139-FC4.i686.rpm
>>> --  rpm -ivh --force --noscript kernel-2.6.17-1.2141-FC4.i686.rpm
>>>
>>> This appears to have put the files back into the new /boot location.  So
>>> my question is what is the next step to tell the system that it needs to
>>> use the new /boot directory?
>>>
>>> Or any other comments?
>>>
>>>       
>> Does Grub know how to handle LVM volume groups? I thought part of
>> the reason for having a separate /boot partition was for Grub
>> access, but I could be wrong. In any case, you will have to
>> re-install Grub to the MBR. Depending on the changes you have made,
>> you may have to update the device map as well.
>>     
>
> You're not wrong. AFAIK grub cannot boot from an LVM volume. It needs to
> be a separate partition.
>
> Paul.
>
>
>   

Well then I guess I better get another partition going.  Thanks for the 
info!