Success with Alpine Sys LVM Install

[dfwarden]

I was able to do a "sys" install of Alpine linux using iohyve 0.7.9 with the loader set to grub-bhyve and the os set to custom. The following grub.conf got me to boot the iso correctly:

set root=(cd0,msdos1)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-hardened modules=loop,squashfs,sd-mod,usb-storage quiet nomodeset
initrd /boot/initramfs-hardened
boot

One note about this is that it appears you must do the "set root=" part. I first tried to prepend the (cdX,msdosY) of your Alpine installer ISO and boot, but I got script errors that seemed to prevent me from doing a sys install with LVM enabled. I'm new to both Alpine and Bhyve/Iohyve, but I suspect this is an Alpine quirk.

After doing a sys install with LVM enabled, I was able to boot to the new install with the following grub.conf:

set root=(hd0,msdos1)
linux /vmlinuz-hardened root=/dev/vg0/lv_root modules=sd-mod,usb-storage,ext4 nomodeset quiet rootfstype=ext4
initrd /initramfs-hardened
boot

Thanks for all your work on iohyve. 😃

[pr1ntf]

First off, thanks for the kind words!

Fantastic work! If you don't mind, I'll take this "recipe" and add Alpine to the list of supported OS's.

Thanks for taking the time to let us know about a working solution!

[pr1ntf]

Did you make any changes to the device.map file?

More info can be found here.

[dfwarden]

Sorry this took me so long... I didn't have to many any changes to the device.map file, but the first thing that I tried was setting loader to grub-bhyve and os to alpine and running iohyve install which I believe created an initial device.map for me. After I saw it was just dumping me in the grub console (no menus), I started playing around with setting the os to custom and trying to figure out good grub console commands to boot the installer. So basically my device.map file is hd0 and cd0 pointing at the zvol and install iso, respectively.

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