Installation Impressions

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Feb 6 02:46:14 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 09:39 -0800, suvayu ali wrote:
> Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions
> on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk.

Hmm, isn't it more the case that the *kernel* reads the LVM partitions?

GRUB starts loading the kernel, which is in the /boot partition.  From
then on, it's the kernel doing the work, GRUB has passed the baton on.

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[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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