[lfs-support] Installing grub from an lvm lfs chroot

2015-10-09 Thread Will Senn
Hi, In transitioning from the virtualbox world to actual hardware, I have hit a snag and I am hoping y'all can help. I have followed the 7.8-rc1 book all the way up to installing grub. But, when I try to install grub, it generates an error: root:/# grub-install /dev/sdb Installing for i386-pc pl

Re: [lfs-support] Installing grub from an lvm lfs chroot

2015-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Will Senn wrote: Hi, In transitioning from the virtualbox world to actual hardware, I have hit a snag and I am hoping y'all can help. I have followed the 7.8-rc1 book all the way up to installing grub. But, when I try to install grub, it generates an error: root:/# grub-install /dev/sdb Instal

Re: [lfs-support] Installing grub from an lvm lfs chroot

2015-10-09 Thread Craig Garner
You don't need a second swap in there either. If you are mounting all LFS directories from 1 partition, you won't need the lvm and can delete and create a 4th primary partition. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Will Senn wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In transitioning from the virtua

Re: [lfs-support] Installing grub from an lvm lfs chroot

2015-10-09 Thread Will Senn
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 exerci

Re: [lfs-support] Installing grub from an lvm lfs chroot

2015-10-09 Thread Will Senn
On 10/9/15 3:30 PM, Craig Garner wrote: You don't need a second swap in there either. If you are mounting all LFS directories from 1 partition, you won't need the lvm and can delete and create a 4th primary partition. Bruce mentioned reusing swap, I'll follow y'alls advice and reply with re