Re: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke-list@xs4all.nl>]

Robert Millan:

> Ah, I see.  What remains puzzling is how do other people manage to boot from
> /boot on LVM (we had reports about that).

Ah, that's possibly what your request is about that I still have
standing out.  I don't think I've ever installed Debian using d-i,
you've got much more uptime when doing it from a running system.

In this case I simply started from my plain Debian install (actually
Ubuntu).  Add another disk, create lvm on that, copy whole system over
to lvm.  Boot new system with / on lvm using old /boot on plain disk.
Some playing with lvm, mkinitrd and grub2 is required here.  

Then play with grub2's /boot device and ordering of modules until it
will also boot from the new copied /boot on lvm.  Trash old plain disk.

Greetings,
Jan.

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