From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4111381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:50:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23A8DE0F71; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED76CE0F13 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 05:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id ex4so1349881wid.14 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:50:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0ItLkHlnt+jq+7sxCpqyMJgE3crqScENjVy6HWho3rY=; b=YdehJ9T+vv08nYqqcPs4b9ZXcCYCaHd0/oMMgP66UpdCi/JMxlAjqq/0vyC5Z6Kx8P rjxTot2F68ZkbeSqDEJAvcADeFSrdSrRzIYxjyXR5GiwLIaopbmkq2sr9wSHxN4fEVsh dj9030BrKVL7G0u2HQ2DlnfIzmzt/oPULSejLS6Zh8NEDC52eh0JukS98XeZrLEe/mQK +mWI3vVbsfjIQXYR2sp6xhkFlOsek6gwIe1dBDbSAAABJpFIG42UC7xZaTkriCWsGQ/b zta1g90VIUOPJw1KweNOv704dnh011dpWjKnVO7tmxuzYbZUNyrg4W7fpZ1CVv4mWHNs JeMw== X-Received: by 10.180.9.69 with SMTP id x5mr864079wia.41.1377841837638; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.204] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pn7sm1469479wic.6.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <522031D4.1080104@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:47:00 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? References: <87r4dcbisz.fsf@nyu.edu> <87sixschz7.fsf@nyu.edu> <87wqn4ar3w.fsf@nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <87wqn4ar3w.fsf@nyu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 60e2ea6e-d338-4e21-ae90-e391394dcded X-Archives-Hash: c1290b9962d4a51e0f4a2deb4bf191ff On 30/08/2013 03:45, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >>> >>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >>> >>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm >> >> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried that yet. > > That I don't know. I believe the LVM "companion manual" that I am > seeking and that I used for previous installs advised against /boot on > lvm (probably also /lib and others). Perhaps this was simply reflecting > no initramfs. Hence any grub issue with /boot on lvm didn't arise. I believe this is correct grub-legacy never did directly support reading lvm volumes, you must use an initramfs -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com