From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JC09r-0005ri-T9 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC09o-0005pS-NO for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:20 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JC09j-0005lN-J9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JC09j-0005ky-DR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:15 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JC09i-0003wa-U8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:09:15 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JC09h-00088W-LP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:09:14 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JC08N-0006Fi-Rj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:07:51 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 23:07:51 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080107220751.GB23660@thorin> References: <1199736618.7025.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1199736618.7025.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: LVM on debian 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: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:09:21 -0000 Hi Martin! On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:18PM +0100, Martin Braure de Calignon wrote: > I've just try for the first time grub2. > > I'm on debian/unstable (grub2 version 1.95+20080105) > I have only one thing to say. It's simply amazing ! > I love it ! Glad to hear that. > I have an lvm /usr partition. And everything works great. > I only have to look on /etc/grub.d/10_linux to see what was the variable > for command line option of the kernel. Yeah I'm afraid we lack documentation. We could use some help on that ;-) > So I had to had GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX on /etc/default/grub. I also have to > edit /etc/grub.d/00_header because grub does not work if he cannot > access to the font (that are on my /usr partition). There's something wrong here. update-grub is supposed to detect when your /usr is inaccessible and disable font automaticaly. You mean that it falls back to text mode, or that it won't install/boot at all? > So I added "insmod > lvm" before font loading. Ah yes, this is a long-standing issue.. > Thanks all for your work. Now I'm looking forward to the next upload of > grub2 on debian to have TGA image support :-) I can't yet! I'm waiting for #459352 -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)