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 <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 /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
