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.
> 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?
Cheers,
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