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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:25:38 -0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <rpk4pi$rkf$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20201124232109.5dbb3f4f@digimed.co.uk

On 2020-11-24, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 19:04:20 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as
>> chainloading a "real" partition?
>
> I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB doesn't
> read from LVM volumes.

Then what does grub's "lvm" module do, and how does it read the
distro's .cfg files from the LVM volumes in which the various distros
are installed?

--
Grant



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-24 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-24 19:04 [gentoo-user] Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...] Grant Edwards
2020-11-24 23:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-24 23:25   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2020-11-24 23:39     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2020-11-25  8:53       ` Wols Lists
2020-11-25 14:52         ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-25 15:20           ` Grant Edwards
2020-11-25 15:54             ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-25 16:04               ` Grant Edwards
2020-11-25 19:08                 ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-25 19:37                   ` Grant Edwards
2020-11-25 23:03                     ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-25 23:12                       ` antlists
2020-11-25 15:20           ` Dale
2020-11-25 16:02             ` Peter Humphrey
2020-11-25 16:31               ` Dale
2020-11-26 11:01                 ` Dale
2020-11-26 11:44                   ` [gentoo-user] Thomas Mueller
2020-11-26 13:15                   ` [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...] Thomas Mueller
     [not found]                   ` <20201126131532.149A5E0959@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2020-11-26 13:35                     ` Dale
2020-11-26 13:50                       ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-26 13:48                   ` Neil Bothwick
2020-11-26 15:57                     ` Jack

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