From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 14 16:15:47 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 042039B6 for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu (dmz-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu [18.7.68.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B64427EC for ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:46 +0000 (UTC) X-AuditID: 12074422-f79be6d000007518-d1-53c400ff8321 Received: from mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu ( [18.9.21.43]) (using TLS with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-5.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 61.30.29976.FF004C35; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:10:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by mailhub-auth-3.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id s6EGAbCI000544; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:10:39 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (system-low-sipb.mit.edu [18.187.2.37]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id s6EGAYi1029101 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:10:36 -0400 Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id s6EGAYPH015337; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:10:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:10:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk X-X-Sender: kaduk@multics.mit.edu To: David Newall Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from an LVM volume In-Reply-To: <53C01775.4080203@davidnewall.com> Message-ID: References: <53C01775.4080203@davidnewall.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFvrBIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixCmqrfuf4UiwwaVDohaX9i9htzh1povV gcnj3qcD7B4zPs1nCWCK4rJJSc3JLEst0rdL4Mr4uPkUS8Fc9opHu2azNjDeYO1i5OSQEDCR 2PDhBwuELSZx4d56ti5GLg4hgdlMEgcv3GCGcDYySpx6fR4qc4hJYuX0JewQTgOjxPX3Dcwg /SwC2hKdd7eyg9hsAmoSj/c2Q+1QlNh8ahJYjYiApsThLffA4swC0hIN6zczgdjCAvoSqz6e B6rh4OAEsp/fFAUJ8wo4Suw5fxksLCSgJ9HzvBIkLCqgI7F6/xQWiBJBiZMzn7BATLSUOPfn OtsERqFZSFKzkKQWMDKtYpRNya3SzU3MzClOTdYtTk7My0st0jXVy80s0UtNKd3ECApgdhel HYw/DyodYhTgYFTi4ZV4dzhYiDWxrLgy9xCjJAeTkiiv0C+gEF9SfkplRmJxRnxRaU5q8SFG CQ5mJRHeox+AcrwpiZVVqUX5MClpDhYlcd631lbBQgLpiSWp2ampBalFMFkZDg4lCd5T/4Ea BYtS01Mr0jJzShDSTBycIMN5gIZvAanhLS5IzC3OTIfIn2JUlBLnDQJJCIAkMkrz4HphCeYV ozjQK8K8W0GqeIDJCa77FdBgJqDB5TVgg0sSEVJSDYwiomdL5nA7Lt6YbDndeD2/5UmuU92H os7s/pwlYCQeOvfftRC+4/PEZRYafbZjar0Tck3jlf35wzHvFknl1i+o/bWaIe7R6xMOoomv K9Q0d//a2J2mmxSmGHv/ybWZj/U9zSX/5/AutMssLz2nk3/bbP1OhdXlzNzlE/4f/zb9YX8x a9gX8RolluKMREMt5qLiRADktX5RCwMAAA== Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org 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: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:15:47 -0000 Hi David, On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, David Newall wrote: > 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. Thanks for the pointer to this article -- it's quite an interesting tale. The article itself is written in a style that one might find on a blog, which is not really a suitable style for direct inclusion into the FreeBSD handbook. However, I think this would be a helpful example to have, and I will look into the possibility of adding it. (But probably not for a month or so, I've got a lot on my plate at the moment.) Thanks for the writeup and pointing us to it! -Ben Kaduk