Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 29 June 2009 10:40:51 Karl Sinn wrote:
> 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.
>
> Why do you say that GRUB can not handle ext4?

that's the unpatched grub.

> 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?

It does not in openSUSE ;).  Since 11.1 grub handles ext4 thanks to a GSoC 
project that openSUSE did, so everything should be fine here.

Andreas
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