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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:53:02 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: |
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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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> That was my thinking, that the kernel/initramfs was reading the LVs but |
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> Grant mentioned the lvm module for GRUB so I broke the habit of a |
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> lifetime and read the man page :-O |
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> "GRUB 2 can read files directly from LVM and RAID devices." |
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That makes it sound like /boot could be on LVM to me. That sound right |
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to you? If so, I'd bet /, root, could be on LVM and grub be able to |
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boot without a lot of extra effort. It may even do so without a init |
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thingy, if one doesn't need it. |
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If that is all doable, almost makes me want to move my OS to a new drive |
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and use LVM for everything. That would be really nice. Might be the |
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best thing since sliced bread and frozen pizza. ROFL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. I been meaning to ask this for ages now. What happened to our |
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other Allan? I think he was from Africa or something and admin'd a |
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bunch of puters there. McKinnon or something like that was the past |
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name. I haven't seen him post in a long time. I hope he is OK and all. |
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