[opensuse] grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS?
I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792, that reports a problem in OpenSUSE with Grub being unable to boot with XFS when someone upgraded from OpenSuSE11.0 to OpenSuSE11.1. Quote: Grub is unable to start if /boot is on xfs partition. Found after updating from 11.0 to 11.1. Response from Novell: ------- Comment #1 From Jiri Srain (jsrain(at)novell(dot)com) 2008-12-18 04:24:39 MST ------- We agreed with product management that /boot on XFS will not be a supported bootloader scenario. See relevant thread on factory to see explanations; successful booting from XFS is just a pure luck. Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still supports high performance file systems like XFS. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2009/06/11 22:00 (GMT-0700) Linda A. Walsh composed:
I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792, ... Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still supports high performance file systems like XFS.
Grub 1 does not support XFS and is not maintained. The Grub devs are wontfixing all Grub 1 bugs. Grub 2 does support XFS and is maintained. The current devel version of Ubuntu uses Grub 2 by default. The Fedora devs are currently discussing whether it's time to switch to Grub 2 in its latest devel version. Lilo, even though "maintained", is an anachronism with flexibility vastly inferior to Grub 1, and even more inferior to Grub 2. -- "Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." Proverbs 23:5 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 01:15 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/06/11 22:00 (GMT-0700) Linda A. Walsh composed:
I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792, ... Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still supports high performance file systems like XFS.
Grub 1 does not support XFS and is not maintained. The Grub devs are wontfixing all Grub 1 bugs. Grub 2 does support XFS and is maintained. The current devel version of Ubuntu uses Grub 2 by default. The Fedora devs are currently discussing whether it's time to switch to Grub 2 in its latest devel version.
Lilo, even though "maintained", is an anachronism with flexibility vastly inferior to Grub 1, and even more inferior to Grub 2. --
Now you brought version-2 up... afaik, grub2 isn't available as a prebuild package during instalation. Not? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Linda A. Walsh wrote:
------- Comment #1 From Jiri Srain (jsrain(at)novell(dot)com) 2008-12-18 04:24:39 MST -------
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Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still supports high performance file systems like XFS.
Sounds good to me. 'lilo' does a good job, always has. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (16.4°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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