Lubos Lunak wrote:
On Sunday 28 of June 2009, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Vahis
wrote: If this causes the user the need to configure separate /boot with ext2 (or ext3 which also works fine or anything else than ext4) I think it should not occur at the final stages of the installation but way before.
I'm in favor of the default config being changed to have a /boot that is ext2.
I'm not. How old is your machine that it cannot boot from the root partition?
It's not the machine. It's GRUB not being able to boot from ext4.
Does someone need to put that in fate?
What should be done here is to report the bug about the default filesystem being ext4 and grub not being able to boot from it (if this hasn't been reported yet). If a solution to that problem turns out to be defaulting ext2 /boot for the time being, ok, whatever, but workarounds should not be the default action.
Right now there's not a stable version of grub that supports booting a kernel from a ext4 partition. It's recommended that you keep /boot in a ext3 partition. Preliminary ext4 support seems to have been added http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=grub&revision=1699 to the 1.97 version of the GRUB2 development branch. There's also a Google Summer of Code project http://code.google.com/soc/2008/suse/appinfo.html?csaid=91DC4C762E7EE6D7 (from opensuse) which seem to have developed http://code.google.com/p/grub4ext4/ ext4 grub support. Both projects -GRUB2 and the GSoC projects- seem (sadly) to be different efforts. The grub package in Ubuntu 9.04 and later includes a patch to support booting from ext4 filesystems (see bug 314350 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/314350) Vahis. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org