Re: Quick btrfs-root question

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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Zhengyu Xu <xzy3186@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

I have a btrfs partition (no seperate /boot) and I recommend using
syslinux. You won't even have to upgrade to Grub2.

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