Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, John Hendy wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote:

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:34 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> >> I did a couple of things after I sent this. For one, I ditched >> arch/root. Now I just have arch. That let me get away from the call to

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, John Hendy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: >>> Greetings, > > >>Just as an aside -- it doesn't affect you here, but you might

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:34 PM, John Hendy wrote: > > I did a couple of things after I sent this. For one, I ditched > arch/root. Now I just have arch. That let me get away from the call to > a nested subvol. > > That on it's own didn't work, but I started playing with the >

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40 AM, John Hendy wrote: > Greetings, > > > I'm trying to utilize btrfs subvols to allow me to boot separate > distros without having to create so many partitions. I'm on Arch Linux > and not finding the wiki super helpful with specifics on

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 06:05:57PM -0600, John Hendy wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: > >> Greetings, > > > >Just as an aside -- it doesn't affect you here, but you might want > >

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: >> Greetings, >Just as an aside -- it doesn't affect you here, but you might want > to be aware -- syslinux doesn't support multi-device btrfs. I've been >

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40:41AM -0600, John Hendy wrote: > Greetings, > > > I'm trying to utilize btrfs subvols to allow me to boot separate > distros without having to create so many partitions. I'm on Arch Linux > and not finding the wiki super helpful with specifics on dm-crypt/luks > and

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > This is not a Btrfs problem yet. Syslinux isn't even getting the > kernel and initramfs loaded, otherwise you'd get a failure during > boot. But instead you're at the bootloader still. > > One thing to realize is that

Re: proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

This is not a Btrfs problem yet. Syslinux isn't even getting the kernel and initramfs loaded, otherwise you'd get a failure during boot. But instead you're at the bootloader still. One thing to realize is that syslinux only finds kernels and initramfs on the local file system. So assuming this

proper syslinux settings for ext4 boot, dm-crypt + btrfs subvol root?

Greetings, I'm trying to utilize btrfs subvols to allow me to boot separate distros without having to create so many partitions. I'm on Arch Linux and not finding the wiki super helpful with specifics on dm-crypt/luks and btrfs. Requested info: $ uname -a Linux arch_zbook 4.9.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP