From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPjA-00059P-4M for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:49:00 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPj7-00057Q-Rw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPj7-00056X-5C for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51390 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLPj6-00056R-Sa for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:56 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:59606) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPj6-0000f4-FD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:48:56 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPdC-0003AY-GR for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:42:51 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KLPi1-000476-OY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:47:49 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:47:49 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080722214749.GE15111@thorin> References: <1216488291.23098.37.camel@sycorax> <1216566394.8334.10.camel@localhost> <1216631588.10092.20.camel@sycorax> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1216631588.10092.20.camel@sycorax> 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: Putting core.img anywhere 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, 22 Jul 2008 21:48:58 -0000 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > > As I stated earlier my disks are not DOS-partitioned (e.g. > pvcreate /dev/hda). I didn't want to have one useless level Turns out it wasn't as useless as you thought :-) > since LVM already does the job (better). LVM does the job of managing storage partitions, but not the "job" of reserving a gap for GRUB to use. Furthermore, the scheme you propose looks overly complicated [1] for the task it's meant to accomplish [2]. Thinking about it, I think the root of your problem is that you would like your storage system (LVM) to be completely unrelated to your boot system (GRUB). But BIOS legacy cruft won't let you do that. So maybe a solution that would work well for you is switching to Coreboot [3]? [1] random-number-chain?? [2] we don't need anything fancy, just an area of disk that isn't used by anything else. [3] http://www.coreboot.org/ -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What good is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)