On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 16:22 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:

Dave Plater wrote:

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Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:

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On Friday 28 November 2008 06:55:38 Quentin Jackson wrote:

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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.

Thanks, now I know that it is just a message.

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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.

Yeah, looks to me like it works more often than not but there may be a case where it doesn't work. I think the error message saying it WILL not work should be changed to MAY not work. Or perhaps instead of using one XFS partition and putting /boot and / everything else in it I could actually make a small /boot partition that isn't XFS. I switched to XFS cause I got sick of manually repairing file systems and since switching about 12 months ago I have not had a single problem on any computer so I'm reluctant to go back to ext or reiser. I bet lots of people will say that don't have any/many problems with ext3 but my experience is otherwise :) Thanks for the info everyone! Q

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