From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1GCyLg-0006ei-IY for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:48:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCyLd-0006e3-UN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:48:45 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GCyLc-0006di-HK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:48:45 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GCyLc-0006df-EC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:48:44 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GCyRe-0001e8-Hg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:54:58 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF42D3C79B03B for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:56:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC593C79B039 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:56:15 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:48:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <87lkpszn0s.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> <874pweck2r.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> In-Reply-To: <874pweck2r.wl%jeroen@vrijschrift.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608151448.41804.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.496669, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: Support for reading LVM volumes X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:48:46 -0000 On Tuesday 15 August 2006 13:30, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > I'm going to work on adding support for LVM to grub-setup now. That's > > the last remaining thing in my SoC project. > > This is done now. This means I've finished all the things for my SoC > project. What I've written is a raid module that is able to read RAID > arrays and LVM module that can read LVM volumes, so GRUB is able to > read files (GRUB modules, kernels, etc) from RAID/LVM. Grub-setup has > code that detects that the GRUB root is on a LVM or RAID device and > will embed GRUB after the MBR. It will set the prefix so that the GRUB > kernel can find the rest of the modules and configuration files. > > Any comments, bug reports, etc. are welcome. :-) You are marvelous! It was very painful for me to filter out applicants for SoC, but you got rid of my pain of sin. :) I think the rest is technical documentation. Could you summerize how it works in brief? You can use the wiki or whatever else as you wish. BTW, are you planning to write an article about your work (e.g. osnews.com, free software magazine, etc.)? Okuji