-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/11/2009 04:02 AM, Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/12/11 Stefan Seyfried <stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com>:
2009/12/10 Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>:
If there is a situation where the supported boot loader doesn't work, it should be fixed. Lilo is a workaround.
only one linux partition, which is XFS, on a ThinkPad.
According to past discussion on this list, this is a "no no"!
Jiri Strain - "Re: [opensuse-factory] XFS Boot Problem" http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-12/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-12/msg00030.html
Unfortunately due to the poor organisation of openSUSE.org, the paper written explaining boot configurations that work, I cannot find though I know it was included in an answer in the thread above.
Are there any good reasons why there cannot be supported boot configurations :
- Normal partitions or RAID1, / ext3/ext4 with /boot sub-directory
- Normal partitons or RAID1, / "exotic" file system, with /boot small ext2/ext3/ext4 partition
- ReiserFS, currently somewhat broken; fix desireable
- LVM, currently "exotic"; direct support desirable
- btrfs, currently "exotic"; direct support desirable
With Installer warning when a possibly broken boot partition is chosen by the expert user.
What are the reasons not to insist on a small /boot partition when using things like LVM (like Fedora install makes by default) or a filesystem that won't be reliably booted?
To me it looks like in trying to be very flexible about it, the end-users end up with either non-boot or performance problems, described by Jeff when starting this thread.
I realize that I'm probably not a typical user with respect to how many kernels I have installed at once, but I don't like having to have to correctly size a /boot partition for all eventualities. Running out of space in /boot is also a source for upgrade problems.
syslinux - http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project
- few choices of filesystem support
Though Greg did mention that btrfs support is forthcoming.
GRUB2
- doubts about configuration
- most likely to gain btrfs support, most filesystem choices today
There were patches posted to the btrfs list a while ago for this, so it's pretty definite. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksiaBoACgkQLPWxlyuTD7IhXACfSRpSe6jq3OitWV1SiJjsgmP3 j2IAn26aaiE1acgdrHnqDK0dDC+VjtDs =AuWp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org