From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 17:02:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBCD6DF9 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au (hawking.rebel.net.au [203.20.69.83]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A31582FA2 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.65] (softdnserr [::ffff:58.160.128.249]) (AUTH: LOGIN davidn, SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,AES128-SHA) by hawking.rebel.net.au with ESMTPSA; Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:27:31 +0930 id 000000000008006C.53C0177C.000013B0 Message-ID: <53C01775.4080203@davidnewall.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 02:27:25 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Booting FreeBSD from an LVM volume Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 17:02:46 -0000 I've written a brief article explaining how to boot FreeBSD from a LVM2 volume. Extensive search of the web suggested it could not be done, but it can, and easily. I thought this might be of interest to the community, and perhaps even suitable for inclusion on the FreeBSD web or handbook. See http://davidnewall.com/papers/Boot-FreeBSD-on-LVM2.html.