From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: (still ?) root on LVM problems
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:52:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080113135259.GA28120@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1200226364.2893.15.camel@sycorax>
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 01:12:44PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote:
> Le dimanche 13 janvier 2008 à 11:57 +0100, Robert Millan a écrit :
>
> > LVM doesn't reserve any space at the beginning of its partitions? Most
> > filesystems do.
>
> I created a new empty volume group with an empty disk to do some
> testing. The lvm label identifying physical disks can be put in
> sector 0, 1, 2 or 3 (default 1). Grub needs the MBR and one sector
> for its "boot image", so that's okay.
> However, LVM metadata starts at block 5 and apparently spans all
> the way down to the first logical volume, so there's no room
> for the core image. Would it be possible to create a small LV at
> the beginning of the disk and put the image there ?
What happens if you comment out the "must_embed = 1" line?
--
Robert Millan
<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-13 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-12 14:01 (still ?) root on LVM problems Jean-Christophe Haessig
2008-01-12 15:04 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-12 15:12 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-12 21:29 ` Jean-Christophe Haessig
2008-01-12 23:26 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-13 0:12 ` Jean-Christophe Haessig
2008-01-13 10:57 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-13 12:12 ` Jean-Christophe Haessig
2008-01-13 13:52 ` Robert Millan [this message]
2008-01-13 20:09 ` Jean-Christophe Haessig
2008-01-13 21:29 ` Jean-Christophe Haessig
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