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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:45 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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>>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs |
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>>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm |
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>> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet. |
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> That I don't know. I believe the LVM "companion manual" that I am |
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> seeking and that I used for previous installs advised against /boot on |
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> lvm (probably also /lib and others). Perhaps this was simply reflecting |
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> no initramfs. Hence any grub issue with /boot on lvm didn't arise. |
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I believe is orthogonal to an initramfs. The initramfs lives in /boot, |
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and if the boot loader (LILO, GRUB, GRUB2) cannot mount /boot, then |
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there is no initramfs. That's why GRUB2 is so damn big (it implements |
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LVM among other things, or at least the minimal to mount partitions |
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read only), and why some people are pushing for "Linux to boot Linux", |
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sometimes called /firstboot. |
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GRUB2 can mount my /boot inside LVM. Perhaps with UEFI all this will |
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become irrelevant. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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