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Re: [Xen-users] Re: Best Distro for Xen, Software Raid and LVM
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- From: "Tony Hernandez" <ttony.hernandez@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:46:55 -0500
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Hey all,
Thanks for the info.
So what I gather is that when I originally setup Dapper or Debian, that I should setup two sotware raid devices, one for /boot and the other for LVM? Then GRUB will be able to read /boot and we won't need LILO?
Tony
On 6/14/06, Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 09:48:16AM -0500, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> I'm looking for people's experiences with distros that work best with Xen
> 3.0.2, software raid, and lvm.
>
> I've tried Ubuntu (Breezy and Dapper) and CentOs
4.3.
> with either. When I installed Dom0, I configured the drives for software
> raid and lvm. Then after downloading the Xen source, building and
> installing it, I couldn't get the Xen kernel to boot. The difficulty was
> only componded by both distros installing LILO.
You put your /boot onto LVM. Don't do that. It makes baby $DEITY cry. Grub
doesn't do LVM -- it has an allergy. Instead, you put your /boot onto a
separate MD device, which Grub *can* read (by the simple expedient of just
ignoring the MD metadata, IIRC) to get your HV, kernel, and initrd.
Ubuntu most certainly uses Grub by default, but /boot on LVM forces it to
use icky LILO instead. It should have given some sort of warning about that
during the install -- it's certainly how I found out about the problem
originally. Maybe Dapper's done away with that bit of user-pestering.
- Matt
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