Dave Plater wrote:
Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
On Friday 28 November 2008 06:55:38 Quentin Jackson wrote:
Anyone know why RC1 suddenly says it won't boot if I make /boot and XFS partition? I've been running XFS as a /boot partition since 10.3 with no problems and never noticed this message before. I'm installing now and don't know if it will or won't work but will let everyone know.
I presume there is a change in code that has meant this message now presents itself?
This is part of our push for bootloader configuration stabilization, there are quite some more checks for what are corner cases and bad practices.
AFAIK if you are able to boot on XFS, you are being lucky, as under some conditions boot might fail (bootloader code might not fit into the space in the XFS partition). Thus, YaST will put there a message that /boot directory has to be on ext2/ext3/reiserfs. It's fine to use XFS on / if you have a separate partition for /boot
You still have an option to install the bootloader on your own.
HTH
Stano
I am confused, I have a single xfs partition sda1 for root and boot and I haven't experienced any booting problems. Regards Dave P
Same here, perhaps we are the ones called "lucky". Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org