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 211B11381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13695E0FE0; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:17:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yh0-f50.google.com (mail-yh0-f50.google.com [209.85.213.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F857E0F7B for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 07:17:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f50.google.com with SMTP id a41so167835yho.37 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:17:35 -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=lwFqj04yLq2i3OM31qjBWpnBnLp1ry5udqLjJoqyhFY=; b=swCMmj9Cy9MZq7cAPIddkdrf+rgd8W+xQ88WdNpVrGCgckE4EFgjqCdFgBVX0uViTh Tiw+LpKPfBaAA0wUzwrtsivJ07eZlfEoiXiCEoLStQRTQjFRDTRt+p0y7JGA+eHTfDol Qub1iVY7kJcLQ0bSQ9BBIM9vIQ6LBLfbGCOYu1vtWiNYpmRjW5Spl+Lo8OCOgRFgx84k KCgr7ScR6DXICpijOhEjXAvbvDCfI1+HQEXtlLTUQFNaRKFPZG6FQaFacfr6fIFJSw3c +tGKy5x+9EPzswSgf3h4hD6YibFJOZvUPemYC054S1duvvkn5WGFxD9VEuebmwc0t5jV 7pmg== X-Received: by 10.236.125.162 with SMTP id z22mr6791017yhh.52.1377847055245; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-149-115.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.149.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id h66sm43672339yhb.7.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 30 Aug 2013 00:17:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5220470C.6080508@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:17:32 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 SeaMonkey/2.20 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> <522031D4.1080104@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <522031D4.1080104@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 6d269024-a073-4d10-84de-f39bf16dbf93 X-Archives-Hash: 316ca52ca45719d553dffe61ef55ba3e Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > That is my understanding as well. I switched from it a while ago but almost certain it only supports regular file systems like ext2, ext4 etc etc. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!