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[peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 28 November 2008, Sid Boyce wrote:
> 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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Had to use  Reiserfs for the boot partition on the laptop here running XFS 
on /

would not boot using XFS boot partition.

Pete .


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