Experiencing the Grub Error 17

[Ed Greshko]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>> Paul Smith wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to boot in the F7 partition, which is in /dev/sdc2 and
>>> /dev/sdc3 (it is lvm). What precisely should I do in order to be
>>> successful with booting in it?
>> I'm not sure exactly what you mean,
>> but can one boot from an LVM partition?
> 
> last time i looked, grub cannot boot from an LVM logical volume.  has
> this changed at all recently?

GRUB has support for LVM and RAID since version 1.95. Multiple volume groups
don't work with GRUB 1.95 however. This bug has been fixed in CVS, so if you
have multiple volume groups you should get the latest version from CVS.


> rday
> 
> p.s.  that's why i still, for historical reasons, always make /boot a
> regular primary partition, then turn the rest of the drive into one
> big volume group.
> 


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