Hi,
I am using LFS 7.0 with LVM2/ext4 for all partitions excepted /boot
which is a primary partition using ext4.
I haven't followed the Bryan Kadzban hint.
What I needed :
- LVM2 2.02.88
- device-mapper 1.02.28
- dracut-013
- some minor modifications in LFS init scripts (to properly remount
/dev/pty when initramfs already did it)
In my configuration, /usr and / are on the same partition. It make
things much more easy when executing the first init scripts.
My main grub entry is :
menuentry "LFS7.0 on LVM2" {
insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=root-fs ro
initrd /initramfs.img
}
/boot is on the 1st primary partition of the first disk
vmlinuz and initramfs.img are symbolic links to kernel and initramfs
files in /boot
initramfs is generated using dracut
While installing I've been using a second hard drive for testing LVM2.
All volumes are using ext4 filesystem with labels to identify them.
I labelled my root filesystem "root-fs". As it is part of a LVM2 group,
the generated dracut script will enable all LVM2 groups to find it. If
it's not part of a LVM2 group you can still add grub the option
rd_LVM_VG=yourVGname to the linux line to enable a specific LVM2 group
when in initramfs.
I'm sorry but I don't have a step by step hint to give you. I needed
many reboots to manage LFS7 to run on LVM2.
Regards,
René
Le 03/01/2012 21:50, Baho Utot a écrit :
> Is the lvm hint by Bryan Kadzban still viable/relavent?
>
> I would like to boot LFS installed to a lvm partition.
>
> I have a 2 TB drive that I use and it is currently booting Arch linux on lvm.
> I would like to convert to use LFS/BLFS. I would like to get away from Arch
> now because of the bloat and the crazy split packages. Just try to build
> the "base packages". LFS/BLFS suits me just fine and I like the way it is
> being developed. I am going to use LFS/BLFS with Trinity.
>
> I will need to boot into lfs install in a lvm partition. So any advice will be
> greatly apreciated.
>
> I could boot LFS on a regular partition and use lvm for everything else but
> that doesn't really fit how I want to use linux.
>
> Thank you for all your hard work.
>
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