From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   In my recent (still somewhat incomplete) system rebuild and upgrade,   
   I came across a question I never encountered before.   
      
   As I was preparing a couple of 2-TB drives, it was clear that I wanted   
   each of them to be a PV (physical volume) with a single VolGroup per   
   drive. I also thought I wanted them to use a GPT partition table.   
   But when I did the "pvcreate", I accidentally specified /dev/sdx   
   instead of /dev/pvx1, and the PV's volume table replaced the GPT.   
   Everything seems to work fiine that way. I don't expect to ever use   
   the drive with any other OS, so Windows compatibility should not   
   be a problem.   
      
   Should I just leave it that way, or might something bite me in the   
   butt at some later point in time?   
      
   And by the way, does a modern BIOS understand LVM natively?   
      
   Can it find bootable volumes directly in the PV/VG/LV structure?   
      
   Does it matter for this question whether there is a single-partition   
   GPT under the LVM structures (does it make it better or worse ?) ?   
      
   Will "anaconda" have trouble working with the no-GPT version?   
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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