Re: How to Boot with LVM

I have found that I can copy an existing entry in EFI, EFI/debian for example, past it in parallel with a new name, EFI/test, update-grub and when I reboot, I have a new choice to the same debian instance. This suggests that I can now delete the debian instance, update grub, only have on

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 11:10:05 AM UTC-5, David Wright wrote: > Quoting ray : > > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:10:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > ray a écrit : > [...] > > > > A baffling point: In rEFInd the path is > > > > /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi > > > >

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > I have only been able to boot the HDD instance. When I navigate to > > the SSD instance, nothing is there. > > Sorry, I should have mentionned that I never used rEFInd (fortunately > never needed it)

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:00:06 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > I have only been able to boot the HDD instance. When I navigate to > > the SSD instance, nothing is there. > > Sorry, I should have mentionned that I never used rEFInd (fortunately > never needed it)

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > I have only been able to boot the HDD instance. When I navigate to > the SSD instance, nothing is there. Sorry, I should have mentionned that I never used rEFInd (fortunately never needed it) and don't know how it works and what it looks like. Could you describe what it displays

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Quoting ray (r...@aarden.us): > On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:10:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > ray a écrit : [...] > > > A baffling point: In rEFInd the path is /boot/efi/EFI/debian/grubx64.efi > > > > How is it baffling ? The EFI system partition is mounted on /boot/efi > > and

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:10:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 8:10:08 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > >> After booting the HDD system with rEFInd, running 'grub-install' should > >> reinstall the bootloader properly. See

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 8:10:08 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> After booting the HDD system with rEFInd, running 'grub-install' should >> reinstall the bootloader properly. See also useful options in my >> previous message. > > Yes, it is now booting. This is

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Hi Ray, I’ll try to answer your questions… On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:36 PM, ray wrote: > Rick, > > Thank you for responding and providing all the info. > > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:20:07 AM UTC-5, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote: >> >>> I

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:40:04 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> > >> Did the Debian installer boot in EFI or BIOS/legacy mode ? > > > > The motherboard BIOS reports the Debian installation

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Did the Debian installer boot in EFI or BIOS/legacy mode ? > > The motherboard BIOS reports the Debian installation media as a UEFI USB. > The installer boot screen says UEFI and it is the same media

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 8:40:05 PM UTC-5, ray wrote: > Update: I would like to clarify that I was able to boot the HDD instance from the rEFInd stick. But, after rebooting and removing the stick, nothing will boot - still.

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 5:40:04 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> ray a écrit : >> >>> I have a lVM partition for the new installation. When I select it, the >>> installer (in manual mode) says it is not bootable and go back to setup >>> to correct. When I go back to

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > I would like to clarify that I was able to boot the HDD instance from > the rEFInd stick. But, after rebooting and removing the stick, nothing > will boot - still. After booting the HDD system with rEFInd, running 'grub-install' should reinstall the bootloader properly. See also

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 8:10:08 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > After booting the HDD system with rEFInd, running 'grub-install' should > reinstall the bootloader properly. See also useful options in my > previous message. Yes, it is now booting. This is with the rEFInd stick:

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 3:50:04 AM UTC-5, Rick Thomas wrote: > Hi Ray, > > I'll try to answer your questions... > > On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:36 PM, ray wrote: > > > Rick, > > > > Thank you for responding and providing all the info. > > > > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:20:07 AM

Re: How to Boot with LVM

ray a écrit : > > AMD64 32G RAM > sda, sdb 32GB + 32GB, RAID0 - md0, LVM, GParted shows 1MB reserved, 1 GB (EFI) > sdc, sdd 64GB + 64GB, RAID0- md1, md127, LVM, GParted shows 1MB reserved, 1 > GB (EFI) > sde, sdf 120GB + 120GB, RAID0- md0, md126 LVM, GParted shows 1MB reserved, 1 > GB (EFI)

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote: > I would like to configure LVMs for everything including boot. Is it “just for fun” or do you have a real-world reason for wanting everything, including boot, to be on LVM? I’ll describe my own typical setup (special purpose systems may

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Rick Thomas a écrit : > > I configure a small (<1GB) "/boot" partition as a primary partition > (e.g. /dev/sda1) on one of the disks, with the same space on the other > disk unused. [1] (...) > The two swap partitions I set up as a RAID0 (e.g. /dev/md0). This will > be my system swap. [2]

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Rick, Thank you for responding and providing all the info. On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:20:07 AM UTC-5, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote: > > > I would like to configure LVMs for everything including boot. > > Is it "just for fun" or do you have a real-world

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Update: I booted up a rEFInd stick. Two boots were found, the first one was the HDD Debian instance and it booted. The second would not boot so I could not identify it. I opened the EFI shell and found: Fs0: no content Fs1: no content Fs2: no content Fs3: rEFInd stick Fs4 - 7: no content

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 3:40:05 AM UTC-5, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > ray a écrit : > > > > AMD64 32G RAM > > sda, sdb 32GB + 32GB, RAID0 - md0, LVM, GParted shows 1MB reserved, 1 GB > > (EFI) > > sdc, sdd 64GB + 64GB, RAID0- md1, md127, LVM, GParted shows 1MB reserved, 1 > > GB (EFI) > >

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Pascal, Thank you for the informative response. I would like to assure I address your concerns it this recovery. > (...) > > System description: > > amd64 with a HDD and 3 pairs of SSDs. The SSD are set up as RAID0 in > > pairs. The HDD currently hosts Debian 8. I used this to configure the

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Hello, ray a écrit : > I would like to configure LVMs for everything including boot. I have > read that others have done this but an I have not found the method. (...) > System description: > amd64 with a HDD and 3 pairs of SSDs. The SSD are set up as RAID0 in > pairs. The HDD currently hosts