On 10/9/15 3:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Why do you want your lfs root partition in a LVM container? I suppose
grub can handle that, but it makes things a lot more complicated. Even
in the above situation, Debian is not booting to a LVM partition.
I had an LVM partition when I started the exercise and I just blindly
kept it that way (and snapshots are easy in LVM, although I have a
feeling I can just unmount the physical partition, dd through gzip to a
backup file and obtain about the same effect).
IIRC, you need a initrd to boot into a system with a root partition in
LVM.
I'm sure I will understand this in the due course of time :)
I suggest tarring up the lfs partition and saving it on debian. Dump
the LVM and create /dev/sdb4 as a regular ext4 partition (You can
reuse the swap partition on sdb3). Then restore the saved LFS to sdb4
and mount it as /mnt/lfs. Do a bind mount of /boot to /mnt/lfs/boot,
remount the virtual partitions and enter chroot. You should be able to
follow the book, but you don't have to install grub. Just edit the
grub.cfg file and add a menuentry for LFS.
-- Bruce
Thanks for the advice. This sounds like it will work. I will try it out
in the next few days and reply with the results.
-- Will
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