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Last edited by Montague (2015-07-28 02:33:10)
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Last edited by Montague (2015-07-28 02:33:28)
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grub2-bios depends on grub2-common, so effectively you have choice between grub2-bios and grub2-bios-bzr. I suggest using grub2-bios-bzr as it is more up-to-date. I have not tried btrfs booting though.
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Last edited by Montague (2015-07-28 02:33:38)
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ah man ... sorry bud. i didn't see this thread awhile back or i would've helped you out.
... yeah, what's in the wiki *works*, but i or another need to revisit it. installing without partition sounds l33t and all ... but it's a huge PITA as you can see. the stuff you saw in fdisk is not real -- it's just fdisk trying to make sense of the partitionless disk. i got bit by my own setup when LZO compression came out and BANG! none of my machines booted :-)
there wasn't really a straghtforward way to fix it anyways im afraid, mostly due to lack of partition table. btrfs can be shrunk, then the table altered/etc, but not in this case. the only reason it works at all is because syslinux is installed inthe the MBR (first ~1MB of disk) ... and no FS ventures there -- ever. so nowadays it really best to use GPT partitions with a separate /boot. it also will allow for multi-drive roots anyway ... just need to eventually crank out a mkinitcpio-btrfs update ...
oh and the change from local.pool.btrfs -> btrfs-root was purely pragmatic -- its makes more sense with the reality of it all, and is shorter :-) -- the hook itself doesn't use that yet. the label you had didn't matter too much either since UUID can be used. you can change the label with `btrfstune` but you have to compile it yourself as of now and it's flaky as hell ... there is a huge updates coming to btrfs-progs (per mailing list) so soon i *think* the `btrfs` tool can handle label changes.
C Anthony
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