Greetings and felicitations,
Um, this seems like a very weird situation. Not sure I believe what the message is telling me -- since it makes no sense to make such a backwards step. I say this from the perspective of burning an 11.1 x86_64 DVD and setting everything up, including a /boot partition with my file systems formatted in XFS. Yet I get a message that the system won't be able to boot because the /boot partition is formatted with XFS.
Is this a bogus install message (didn't seem to stop the install from starting/running)?
Do I have to go back to 11.0 or earlier to support XFS booting?
So what's up? Why am I getting this message. Do I install 10.3 where I can boot from XFS then run multiple updates (dunno about 11.0). Seems like a bassackwards way of obtain the the desire solution.
I started the install anyway, and decided/hoped I'd be able to fix the problem (otherwise, I'll be redoing the install :-))...
Any ideas why I'm seeing this odd message? Booting from XFS has been supported at least back to SuSE9 if not before.
Thanks, Linda It's something to do with grub, if xfs is the root partition then grub cannot be in the mbr because there is not enough room for it. You have to have a separate non xfs boot partition. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2008-12/msg00009.html is one of the messages in the opensuse-factory archives from when this issue came up in 11.1 rc1, if you search for XFS in subject you will get all
Linda Walsh wrote: the threads with interesting links including http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ. I had a boot problem when I upgraded my system to 11.1 retail 32 bit but I backed up and did a new x86_64 install with an ext2 boot partition so I don't know if other than mbr grub works. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org