-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-06-11 at 23:38 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
Re: "Grub supposedly unable to start if /boot is on xfs partition, So, because grub is broken, XFS is no longer supported as a boot partition by Novell/SuSE. (!)...
This is old and well known stuff. You new here? >:-P
The issue was Grub not being able to write to the root directory if it is formatted as an XFS partition.
No, that's not the issue. The issue is that both xfs and grub write to the same place breaking one another. They are (were?) currently incompatible. And it was documented by the XFS people, the idea of this problem came from them, not from suse people. Please read the original thread when this problem was first reported (factory).
But I would really suggest that OpenSuse follow Ubuntu's example -- just use a bootloader that works.
I agree that Novell should not have dropped lilo from the bootloader configuration. But not sufficient people complained when they decided that, to save costs :-( The current suse-fied solution is just to have a small boot partition, separate from root, formatted as ext2 - grub goes there, root remains being xfs, everything works. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoyY1IACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VKHwCeOdOy5Gn20JIbYDXJLGEtZxYz 2E8Amwa8hOE5jkoQ3+ZYiYG3Cvc71rBr =DGTJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org