Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks, raid6, grub2, lvm2

Michael Ole Olsen [off-list ref] writes:

I tried recently with grub2 and also the old grub in lenny (even the lenny
    installer fails, though it seems to complete fine, it just don't boot
    afterwards).

didn't think I would get an issue trying to get /boot on my lvm2 raid6 volume,
    as i recalled grub supported mdadm raids and also lvm2.

Grub supports neither. No idea if grub2 can do raid6.

seems it has to be partitioned separately as a partition with mdadm and no
lvm2 on top of the boot partition, thats the only thing grub supports, 
     if I am not mistaken?

I just made one big volume, then created the logical volume /boot , and
neither grub or lilo would touch it (lilo only supports mdadm raid1 volumes)

would be cool to be able to boot lvm2 /boot volumes with grub

yes it would.

just wanted to give my recent experience with grub+lvm2+mdadm raid6.


/Michael Ole Olsen

MfG
        Goswin