Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Daniele <kailed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Il lunedì 29 giugno 2009, Karl Sinn scrisse:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, 29. Juni 2009 05:02:31 schrieb Vahis:
> > It's not the machine. It's GRUB not being able to boot from ext4.
>
> I'm reading this thread, but I actually don't understand.
> I installed Milestone2, as by default, on a ext4 partition, and the
> system was able to boot from it.
me too. It's a test machine so only one[1] big partition e grub 
installed into MBR. Yes, error message at the end of installation but no 
issue after that..

[1] for factory..
sda1->windows
sda4->extended
sda5->factory
sda6->swap
sda7->old 11.0 /
sda8->old 11.0 /home
> Why do you say that GRUB can not handle ext4?
>
> The only problem I had, and that's why I reinstalled with ext3, was
> that my opensuse 11.0 didn't want to start. It complained about some
> unknown options on the filesystem.
>
> Which leads me to the question:
> Why is ext4 the default filesystem, if it still causes problems?
Agree. I'd like to hear something from kernel/grub folks about this...
Bye.


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