2011/10/2 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s....@gmx.de>:
> [ Unrelated to this, I have been playing with the idea of doing a
> kFreeBSD-amd64/ unstable installation on real hardware, to allow me
> some further wpasupplicant (or lirc) testing, but all of my systems
> use lvm2 on top of MSDOS or GPT partition tables spanning the whole
> drive (/ on lvm2, no dedicated /boot/). This configuration is
> apparently not supported by Debian/ kFreeBSD yet, e.g. d-i/ partman
> doesn't offer to use the volume group or existing logical volumes
> therein and grub2 can't find the root device, if copied manually.
> While I have tested to move kFreeBSD manually to a prepared ufs2
> filesystem on top of a LVM2 logical volume, which works fine after
> adapting fstab and setting
> kfreebsd_module_elf /lib/modules/8.2-1-amd64/geom_linux_lvm.ko
> in grub.cfg of an external grub2 install (either on a regular
> partition or linux / on lvm2) in kvm, I didn't try to move such
> an install to real hardware, yet. ]
This patch should fix your grub.cfg problem, could you test?
--
Robert Millan
--- /etc/grub.d/10_kfreebsd 2011-01-18 12:59:08.000000000 +0100
+++ 10_kfreebsd 2011-10-04 06:53:23.879864773 +0200
@@ -75,6 +75,17 @@
EOF
fi
+ case "$(grub-probe -t abstraction --device ${GRUB_DEVICE})" in
+ lvm)
+ test -e "${module_dir}/geom_linux_lvm.ko"
+
+ printf '%s\n' "${prepare_module_dir_cache}"
+ cat << EOF
+ kfreebsd_module_elf ${module_dir_rel}/geom_linux_lvm.ko
+EOF
+ ;;
+ esac
+
case "${kfreebsd_fs}" in
ext2fs)
test -e "${module_dir}/ext2fs.ko"
