Thread: Slackware boots from LVM - how?

Dear all,

I found, in Slackware, without using physical/raw partition Linux can be booted & OS will be in LVM but in general people use /boot from physical/raw partition to boot the RedHat linux System & root and other file systems would be in LVM. My doubt is how a system will be booted without using any physical partition hope this is done as lilo does not read file system & kernel can be in LVM.

Please any one of you explain how it is working in lilo and is it possible through grub?


To install and boot Slackware from LVM using lilo is explained here: slackware.osuosl.org/slackware/README_LVM.TXT

Thank you.

I just suggest you that You have to reinstall it in order to get all feasible configurations back.

Dear all,

Hope I have confused. There is no issue in my machine & installation.
Below is better explanation:

In Slackware machine, you are seeing that you have only one file system and it is under LVM. Booted through lilo

You have one HDD and only one partition and type is LVM. Bootloader is written in MBR.

/dev/rootvg/rootlv /

Please let me know how it is working.

Thanks