On Friday June 12 2009, Dan Goodman wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
I must be missing something. I'm running two openSUSE 11.1 systems with XFS root file systems that boot with GRUB. What are the full set of criteria for encountering this bad interaction between XFS root file systems and GRUB? (By the way, my /boot is on my root file system, i.e. XFS.)
As Heinz Diehl pointed out, earlier in this thread:
This should not be related to GRUB at all, the main problem to have GRUB installed on a XFS formatted partition is that XFS writes its superblock to sector 0 and the grub installer overwrites it by default, and this results in not being able to chainload.
And since grub is looking for its initial data in a location somewhere within /boot on your root filesystem, that is not located at sector 0, it does not overwrite XFS's superblock at sector 0, nor does XFS clobber grub's data.
I'm having trouble sorting that out, but I think the answer might be that the first partition on my boot volume (which _is_ the root file system) starts at cylinder 2.
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-Dan
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