Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Monday, 2008-12-01 at 16:06 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:
>
> > > I think this is the sum-up:
> > >
> > >   - If there is no separate /boot partition and / is xfs
> > >      - grub is in MBR  --> OK.
>
> > Not really, see Josef's mail (and quotation of the documentation).
> It may
> > work, but it may not. 1st stage needs to contain the block numbers
> of the
> > filesystem driver, which may be a problem with XFS.
>
> Ah. I see...
>
> > The ones below which you marked as Bad cannot work at all. The OKs
> below shall
> > work without any problems.
>
> Ok, then the table would be:
>
>    - If there is no separate /boot partition and / is xfs
>       - grub is in MBR  --> Bad (might work on ocassion)
>       - grub is in /    --> Bad.
>    - If there is a separate /boot partition (recommended ext2)
>      and / is xfs
>         - grub is in MBR    --> OK.
>         - grub is in /boot  --> OK.
>         - grub is in /      --> Bad.
>    - If any non / partition is xfs (and thus, does not hold grub) --> OK.
>
> I'll try to complete the table with the reasons later, time permitting.
>
> -- Cheers,
>        Carlos E. R.
I think you will find that every booting XFS system has grub in the MBR.
Regards
Dave P

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