<p>Booting from LVM is indeed possible with GRUB 2. Not sure about GRUB 1, I don't recall.</p>
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Sent from my phone... a G2 running CM7 nightlies!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 9, 2011 6:39 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <<a href="mailto:damon@damtek.com">damon@damtek.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 16:32 -0400, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
>> Ran rescue mode from DVD but still no joy. Got the following error<br>>> message:<br>>> <br>>> <br>>> Booting Centos (2.6.18-238.e15)<br>>> root (hd1.0)<br>>> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e<br>
>> kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.e15 ro root=/dev/volgroup00/logvol00 rhgb<br>>> quiet<br>>> Error 17: cannot mount selected partition<br>>> Press any key to continue ...<br>>> <br>> <br>> As Chuck said, type 0x8e is LVM partitioning. Do it again, make a<br>
> partition of 100-200MB is size and mount it as /boot.<br>> <br>> Do the rest with LVM. No more problem. <br>> <br>> Thought I thought grub worked off of LVM, but my memory could be bad.<br>> <br>> -- <br>
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