From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JNEOI-0005yw-Iv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:34:42 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNEOF-0005yT-Vd for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:34:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNEOE-0005yH-RJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:34:39 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNEOE-0005yE-NV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:34:38 -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 1JNEOE-00024k-Ez for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:34:38 -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 1JNENz-0005ES-W7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:34:26 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JNEM5-00068W-NU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:32:25 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:32:25 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080207213225.GA23492@thorin> References: <1202161005.7223.38.camel@xerces> <20080204224338.GC28299@thorin> <20080205093850.GB30578@thorin> <1202416532.5048.59.camel@peder.flower> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1202416532.5048.59.camel@peder.flower> 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: grub2 and Linux software RAID devices 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: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:34:40 -0000 On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:35:32PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > 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. I don't think I could handle this. My experience with lvm as a user is minimal. If you can provide a disk image that I can use to reproduce the problem in qemu, that would help me look into the problem(s). -- 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 /.)