On 01/03/2012 03:44 PM, René GARCIA wrote:
> 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.
>>
I will look at dracut thanks
I may need help with the init scripts as that is not one of my good points.
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