Fixing unbootable installation on LVM root from Desktop LiveCD
- by intuited
I just did an installation from the 10.10 Desktop LiveCD, making the root volume an LVM LV.
Apparently this is not supported; I managed it by taking these steps before starting the GUI installer app:
installing the lvm2 package on the running system
creating an LVM-type partition on the system hard drive
creating a physical volume, a volume…