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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.5.1 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201125145247.02d5480e@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 766c3540-46b7-47a7-a85a-1c52bea92b6f X-Archives-Hash: 4a7f1eba9ed70b05c0f79952d97fb997 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:53:02 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I *think* the grub volume itself has to be plain, no lvm, mdadm etc. All >> the stuff for that is in the initramfs, so grub loads the initramfs, >> starts the kernel, the kernel starts pid 1 which can now start mdadm, >> lvm etc, and then it can pivot root onto the proper root filesystem. > That was my thinking, that the kernel/initramfs was reading the LVs but > Grant mentioned the lvm module for GRUB so I broke the habit of a > lifetime and read the man page :-O > > "GRUB 2 can read files directly from LVM and RAID devices." > > That makes it sound like /boot could be on LVM to me.  That sound right to you?  If so, I'd bet /, root, could be on LVM and grub be able to boot without a lot of extra effort.  It may even do so without a init thingy, if one doesn't need it.  If that is all doable, almost makes me want to move my OS to a new drive and use LVM for everything.  That would be really nice.  Might be the best thing since sliced bread and frozen pizza.  ROFL Dale :-)  :-)  P. S.  I been meaning to ask this for ages now.  What happened to our other Allan?  I think he was from Africa or something and admin'd a bunch of puters there.  McKinnon or something like that was the past name.  I haven't seen him post in a long time.  I hope he is OK and all.