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#1 2012-07-26 01:15:09
- ill
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Trying a LVM install, having problems
This whole new installation process combined with never doing a LVM setup before has me on a bit of a learning curve but after a few re-tries I think I'm getting close. I'm trying to install grub but I get a warning about core.img being unusually large and then it won't fit in the embedding area so it fails.
I have one giant physical partition and /, /home, /media virtual partitions with LVM.
Any help?
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#2 2012-07-26 10:56:11
- webspider
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Re: Trying a LVM install, having problems
I'm sorry I can't really help you with this, but after installing GRUB on a LVM-on-LUKS setup failed for me as well, I resorted to syslinux.
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#3 2012-07-26 11:13:55
- Barrucadu
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Re: Trying a LVM install, having problems
You need to leave a bit of space before the first partition for the grub core.img to be embedded. IIRC, 31KB is the minimum, but I just usually leave a 1MB gap.
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#4 2012-08-08 02:28:20
- ill
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Re: Trying a LVM install, having problems
Sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you all, this isn't my highest priority right now. I tried it again, with space at the beginning. Now when I run "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda" I get the error "/dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive".
Last edited by ill (2012-08-08 02:32:16)
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#5 2012-08-08 07:09:55
- tr!x0r
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Re: Trying a LVM install, having problems
If I'm understanding correctly,
You have one drive, did you created your LVM structure with pvcreate /dev/sda or did you create a partition and gave it the code e8/8e ( I don't remember which one it was exactly).
Remember, to boot LVM you have to change a few settings. Also remember that your /boot partition should be a physical partition and not an LVM one, this will not work.
If you need any help, feel free to ask. I've been playing with LVM a lot lately so I think I should be able to help you.
Cheers
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