On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Hiisi wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 22:00 -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>> On 3/14/2011 9:15, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:06:56AM -0800, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
>>>> gholms@luna ~ % mount | grep ext
>>>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw)
>>>
>>> In the LVM way of things, if I connect this disk to another
>> computer,
>>> would these /boot partitions collide and prevent the computer from
>> booting?
>>
>> That volume is just a regular partition since /boot can't reside on a
>> LV.
>
> Abstracting from LVM I would say that yes, a computer with two disks
> with a boot sector on each of them won´t boot without additional
> configuration.

That is a different issue.
I used to have boot sectors on multiple IDE disks and the
BIOS preferred the primary/master disk.

/boot cannot be on an LVM partition since most boot loaders
(is that the BIOS, grub or the boot image kernel ?)
don't have LVM support.

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