Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:24 PM, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: How big's your post-MBR gap? >>> >>> I gather that's the so-called embedding

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread CaT
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:48:53AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> > >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > > go about fi

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 O

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Shane Johnson
When I use fdisk to create partitions, I turn off DOS compatibility (c command) and uses sectors(u command) and start my partitions at the default (2048 I beleive) and I don't have any problems. Shane On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom >>> wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > How big's y

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: How big's your post-MBR gap? >>> >>> I gather that's the so-called embe

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> How big's your post-MBR gap? >> >> I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do >> I go about finding out

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> How big's your post-MBR gap? > > I gather that's the so-called embedding region. I don't know. How do I > go about finding out? Can I change it? fdisk -l /dev/sdX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >>> >>> Put /boot on the RAID. >>> >>> MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. >>> >>> Upgrading to Wheezy will g

Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

2012-10-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:44:16 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> Put /boot on the RAID. >> >> MBR loads GRUB, and GRUB does the rest of the heavy lifting. >> >> Upgrading to Wheezy will go a long way toward making this easier. It's >> in feature fr