Linda Walsh wrote:
Weird. I've been booting from xfs with lilo, and more recently, 'grub', from suse 7.x up to 11.1. I haven't any recent probs concerning lilo, but I saw this same type of issue and a solution in Ubuntu's bug database (though they encountered this problem 3 years ago and automatically used a workaround to not corrupt a user's choice of filesystem.
The issue was Grub not being able to write to the root directory if it is formatted as an XFS partition. The response was Ubuntu's workaround (maybe openSuSE could figure out how they did this...it is open source...and they could adopt their solution rather than just throwing up their hands and saying they don't support XFS).
The Ubuntu installer automatically uses lilo in the case where the root (or boot) file system is XFS. Thus no ever sees the problem grub has with XFS, they simply use the more primitive, but more reliable 'lilo' bootloader.
-linda
I was about to refer you to http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ and tell you to read the lilo and xfs boot sections but I see they have changed their tune about grub and say that grub now works as of 0.97 so maybe it will work. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org