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 CC3571381F3 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B927E0D75; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com (mail-la0-f43.google.com [209.85.215.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D93B7E0D4F for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2013 02:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f43.google.com with SMTP id ep20so1078187lab.30 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:29:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2z+CQsYW7fWql3STCKRPPvRLSAdAvRtt6C/TF4mWB58=; b=VIkPUS/bdVKv486VuydrPjYKkOkKA0PFMUwU34g9DBBTxya2CgRckC8U6aoW9/mQ2e DviTau6/IqHCtt/UnK5EUzZkOLQ8DI2qDQgChHvXInqpMjgfyA6sMK/ScSZh385xcJLx HRLlNN1fflj44ICIrekRQsZC+yeSZEOTSz0xJt5rvBzqrSY0hvLPkv5inY0ypbd2eomu l18OKGbb/dHpT4Sz1R+NcxFwHEY1WdG5f7rz944rzbEE6qTKwbl/VNsLGP6b7+S07RvB vCg3QvvpTduy8ZXYGCTN6FYUbx2DMYXVIEU7uBy4qgixSmyLKgi8QEGBQ0S/lx117Mrm 7+LQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.152.30.74 with SMTP id q10mr5694488lah.27.1377829788152; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:29:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.96.2 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:29:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wqn4ar3w.fsf@nyu.edu> References: <87r4dcbisz.fsf@nyu.edu> <87sixschz7.fsf@nyu.edu> <87wqn4ar3w.fsf@nyu.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:29:48 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 00b5b584-aa43-4685-bdc5-b728966ed4a5 X-Archives-Hash: 04f4bb50da6869791772f3522945b094 On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:45 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s 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 is orthogonal to an initramfs. The initramfs lives in /boot, and if the boot loader (LILO, GRUB, GRUB2) cannot mount /boot, then there is no initramfs. That's why GRUB2 is so damn big (it implements LVM among other things, or at least the minimal to mount partitions read only), and why some people are pushing for "Linux to boot Linux", sometimes called /firstboot. GRUB2 can mount my /boot inside LVM. Perhaps with UEFI all this will become irrelevant. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico