Hi,
On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 04:48:18PM +0100, Merlin Büge wrote:
I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one for SWAP, the other one for the system and everyting else, formatted with Btrfs.
Why is it unusual? Everyone does this: LUKS on a raw block device, then LVM or btrfs subvolumes inside it.
Because in my case LUKS occupies the hole physical disk. I think not everyone does this. Or, because I have GPT inside a LUKS container, which obviously does not run out-of-the-box.
The laptop runs libreboot, so I have GRUB2 as a payload inside the flash chip which I use to decrypt the LUKS container and load a GRUB configfile located at /boot/grub/grub.cfg (generated by grub-mkconfig). This works fine.
Where is /boot physically located? Can grub2 boot from LV these days?
/boot is physically located on my only storage drive in the laptop. It's not a seperate partition, just on the Btrfs filesystem.
Can grub2 boot from LV these days?
I don't know (nor do I need). Regards -- Merlin Büge <toni@bluenox07.de>