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[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6
- Subject: [ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6
- From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:33:43 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAEo=5PxRYWwtJwv9=cjRDr7K_4__EoYSpsUXOQ8WRmychJiAOg@mail.gmail.com> (Jim Kinney's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:48:50 -0400")
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Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:
> True. Which is why I was head scratching on this. The error message was
> generated after the kernel was launched so /boot was OK. So it was trying to
> mount / and choking on it being LVM.? So my thinking was the default install
> is to glom up all drives into a single LV and the hardware raid device was not
> recognized properly and the installer used the physical devices instead of the
> raid logical.
>
> I'm not sure why rhel6 is grub v1. As I learned in MTrausch talk, grub v2 is
> light years ahead of v1. But it is radically different enough that it may have
> been shot down in user preference engineering.
Even Fedora 15 still uses Grub v1.
It's sufficiently different that Red Hat hasn't switched over.
-derek
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