Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 28 November 2008 06:55:38 Quentin Jackson wrote:
> Anyone know why RC1 suddenly says it won't boot if I make /boot and XFS
> partition?  I've been running XFS as a /boot partition since 10.3 with
> no problems and never noticed this message before.  I'm installing now
> and don't know if it will or won't work but will let everyone know.
>
> I presume there is a change in code that has meant this message now
> presents itself?

This is part of our push for bootloader configuration stabilization, there are 
quite some more checks for what are corner cases and bad practices.

AFAIK if you are able to boot on XFS, you are being lucky, as under some 
conditions boot might fail (bootloader code might not fit into the space in 
the XFS partition). Thus, YaST will put there a message that /boot directory 
has to be on ext2/ext3/reiserfs. It's fine to use XFS on / if you have a 
separate partition for /boot

You still have an option to install the bootloader on your own.

HTH

Stano

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