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

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-04-16 at 01:16 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:

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.

It is a known and documented issue. Grub can not be safely installed on an XFS partition. You have to format /boot on something else, preferably ext2 (not 3), and install grub there or on the MBR. Please read <http://en.opensuse.org/Bootloader/Scenarios> More info: <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#grubwork> ] Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] XFS Boot Problem ] Subject: Supported scenarios for bootloader installation (was: Re: [opensuse-factory] XFS Boot Problem) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknnJz4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WdOQCeJZTTnpYnj3sAtc0wrD36/fwb sXkAnAljN7kWrN5o6Lzn4XYLSs+gK+u/ =uBHN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:

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

Linda, I don't know if anyone said, but I believe this issue is old. It is just the notification that is new. If the grub / xfs issue occurs, I think it is just a first time boot issue, not a data loss issue. So if you were able to install and get things working, then your golden and I don't think there is any reason to re-install. But one of these days you may have a new install fail because of a grub / xfs compatibility issue. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org