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On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:20:04 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > "GRUB 2 can read files directly from LVM and RAID devices." |
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> That was certainly the behavior described by the examples documented |
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> by people who were using grub to boot multiple partitions by having a |
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> master copy of grub with a menu that would then boot selected distros |
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> installed within LVM volumes by having each of the master menu entries |
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> load a new "distro" .cfg file from that LVM volume (each of the LVM |
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> volume's .cfg file was maintained by the distro package manager). |
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> But that relys on the assumption that the distros all run compatible |
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> versions of Grub2. What I was wondering was whether normal |
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> chainloading would work (which wouldn't rely on that assumption). |
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I would expect all versions of GRUB2 to use the same config syntax. |
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Changing the syntax between versions could mean an update rendering the |
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computer unbootable, which we would probably have heard about. |
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I'm not sure chainloading would work as that requires a drive definition |
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from which to load the boot sector. |
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