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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
