Re: grub / ext4 compatibility problem?

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:40:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 June 2009 17:20:26 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 17 June 2009 16:46:57 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > >> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> I've run into a really peculiar problem today..
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >>> This is on Fedora 11 system (I upgraded from Fedora 10 few days ago) with
> > >>> all updates and ext3 migrated (per HOWTO on ext4 wiki) to ext4 yesterday.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is this something worth people's attention or should I just try to run fsck
> > >>> manually?
> > >>
> > >> is /boot ext4?  F11's grub doesn't yet understand ext4, as mentioned in
> > >> the releasenotes.  I hope to remedy that soon but in the F11 devel
> > >> cycle, other bugs of the oopsing & corrupting kind were more pressing...
> > > 
> > > I see it now, in my case there is no separate /boot partition.. :)
> > > 
> > > Thanks Eric & sorry for the noise.
> > 
> > No problem, sorry I didn't get grub going before F11 released :)
> 
> Hm, upon looking at the ext4 patch for the grub I think that including it
> can't make the situation worse.  It is quite compact/clean patch and grub
> cannot ever access such fs in write mode (AFAICS from the quick look)?

I got a confirmation from Peng Tao (the patch author) that this is indeed
a case here.

The patch works fine for me so just in case if somebody runs into the same
issue I'm posting the current F11/x86 grub package with ext4 support here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/f11/

grub-0.97-50.fc11.ext4.i586.rpm
grub-0.97-50.fc11.ext4.src.rpm

[ Please note that doing grub-install is needed after installing it. ]

Thanks.
Bart