lvm: boot form logical volume (hard disk) ??

[libengine]

Hi all,

 

does anyone know how to boot from a locgical volume?

the volume group is located on a mbr-parted partition (/dev/sda5)

 

Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00002074

Device     Boot  Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1         2048    499711    497664   243M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2       501758 976771071 976269314 465.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       501760 976771071 976269312 465.5G 8e Linux LVM

I dont' dare to execute nand-sata-install 'cause it does recognize just the MBR-Partitions. It seems to me that it will overwrite the volume group.

Currently I'm running bananian from the disk.

Added an new root-lv "/dev/langate/root-new" and rsynced the root-fs from the sd-card to the new root-lv.

Patched /boot/boot.cmd, executed 'mkimage -C none -A arm -T script -d /boot/boot.cmd /boot/boot.scr'.

It doesn't function. I can't describe the error-messages right now further.

 

Logical volumes look like this:

 ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/root' [2.00 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/swap_1' [1004.00 MiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/usr' [8.00 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/home' [2.00 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/var' [12.00 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/data' [438.54 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/langate/root-new' [2.00 GiB] inherit

 

[libengine]

Hi all,

 

Managed to boot from a locgical volume.

This is what I did;

• Left 'boot.cmd" untouced
• Edited '/boot/armbianEnv.txt':  'rootdev=/dev/mapper/langate-root--new'

This is it, basically.

Of course I hat to boot at least one time before from sd-card and did:

• sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
• sudo apt install lvm2

After booting from hard disk I disabled zram and ramlog

• sudo apt install zram-config
• sudo systemctl disable zram-config
• sudo systemctl disable armbian-ramlog

reboot

 

[marcz]

You can also use the UUID both in your /boot/armbianEnv.txt and the fstab. So a lvrename or vgrename will not make your system unbootable.

I use it for using as rootfs a btrfs filesystem in an lvm logical volume.

 

[sfx2000]

On 1/19/2019 at 12:34 PM, marcz said:

You can also use the UUID both in your /boot/armbianEnv.txt and the fstab. So a lvrename or vgrename will not make your system unbootable.

I use it for using as rootfs a btrfs filesystem in an lvm logical volume.

 

Yep - both places...

 

I normally don't do LVM for boot drives as it increase complexity for the rootfs, even on Intel/AMD platforms, but LVM can be very useful for extending the file system out...

 

The big thing is understanding how the LVM stack works - this is from an article I wrote a couple of years ago teaching LVM and as part of it, we create a RAID0 array using two USB thumb drives, lol...