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

2017-02-12 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:05 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 a

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

2017-02-12 Thread John Hendy
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:34 PM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> I did a couple of things after I sent this. For one, I ditched >> arch/root. Now I just have arch

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

2017-02-11 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:40 AM, John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> 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 wi

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

2017-02-10 Thread John Hendy
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> 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-de

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

2017-02-10 Thread John Hendy
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

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

2017-02-10 Thread John Hendy
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