Bug 222402

Summary:	RFE: Allow installations into an LV
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description Pete Zaitcev 2007-01-12 02:47:40 UTC

Anaconda does not allow installations into a logical volume. However,
Xen's backend block drivers allow to have roots on LVs of LVM2.
It would be great if such a configuration was possible to install.
Best of all, while running under Xen.

The issue is, if I select a volume, Anaconda says:
"bootable partitions cannot be at a logical volume"

But in this case, I don't even need to install grub.

Current workaround is to keep a spare partition, install there, then
copy the installation over into the desirable Xen guest's root image.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-01-15 18:31:22 UTC

Your guest will be using pygrub, though, and pygrub doesn't know how to boot an
LV either.