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On 24/11/20 23:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:25:38 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>>> In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as |
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>>>> chainloading a "real" partition? |
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>>> I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB doesn't |
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>>> read from LVM volumes. |
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>> Then what does grub's "lvm" module do, and how does it read the |
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>> distro's .cfg files from the LVM volumes in which the various distros |
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>> are installed? |
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> Maybe what you want. I haven't used LVM or GRUB much n the past several |
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> years, so maybe it is OK now, although a quick web search before I posted |
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> implied it wasn't. RTFM time? |
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I *think* the grub volume itself has to be plain, no lvm, mdadm etc. All |
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the stuff for that is in the initramfs, so grub loads the initramfs, |
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starts the kernel, the kernel starts pid 1 which can now start mdadm, |
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lvm etc, and then it can pivot root onto the proper root filesystem. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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