On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 21:50 -0400, Jameson wrote: > I apologize if I've missed it somewhere, but does grub support booting > from a multi-device btrfs root sub-volume without a separate /boot? > According to the wiki I think it's supposed to work, but when I chroot > to that root, and run grub-install, it returns: > Path `/boot/grub' is not readable by GRUB on boot. Installation is > impossible. Aborting. > > I left the chroot, and installed grub to that disk from my old root, > but it won't boot from my new volume. Does anyone have some advice, > or should I just move to a separate /boot? > > Thanks, > =-Jameson Hi, I have just finished an installation of archlinux onto a btrfs partition (although it is not a multi-device btrfs partition) with /boot in a separated subvolume. For my case the grub2 works well. Before your running of grub-install, have you checked if /root is accessible from your chroot environment? Regards, Zhengyu
