On 2010-07-29 09:19, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Thursday 29 Jul 2010 01:12:03 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The given solution is to install /boot in a small separate partition formatted as ext2 - like it or not.
Understood? >:-)
not a hope in hell or maybe hell will have to freeze over before that happens ie never ever . :-)
ROTFL! X'-)
Suggestion: disable the splash screen display both on boot and halt, so that you can see what is happenning.
Well as for it being and age old problem i have never until 11.3 come across it and i have always followed the same install setup of reiserfs for / and xfs for /home the only times i have used the ext* junk filesystems it has always junked my data totally so ther is absolutley no way on this planet i will ever use ext* at all .
I have had my data trashed completely by reiserfs, by xfs, and by ext3. All fail.
The only reason it is slow is because of the underlying problem of it not being unmounted correctly in the first place
There are two problems here. One is that the filesystem is not umounted correctly, and you are not the first one having that problem in 11.3. I insist you report it in a Bugzilla. If you don't like bugzilla, well, swallow your dislike and do it, or wait to see if somebody else reports that or a similar problem and yours get solved in the near future (days, weeks, months...). Whining will do nothing. The other problem, triggered by the above problem, is that grub on a reiserfs is very slow if the filesystem was not properly umounted. This is known and will not be fixed. If you want to by pass it... I will not repeat the solution as you hate it. But it is the only known solution. So, wait several minutes for grub to start, it is your choosen poison >:-) (I'm not sugesting you put / on ext3. I'm suggesting you add a new, small, partition, of about 100 Mb, in ext2, where you put /boot and grub. It is only a small piece of hell for you to swallow :-P ) (or do some investigation and find some other supported filesytem type you can use. Minix? Fat no, no links) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))