Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Plater wrote:
> Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >   
> I am confused, I have a single xfs partition sda1 for root and boot and
> I haven't experienced any booting problems.
> Regards
> Dave P

Same here, perhaps we are the ones called "lucky".
Regards
Sid.
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