From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS? Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:24:36 -0500 Message-ID: <47AB7714.50608@tmr.com> References: <47A77CC0.10807@pobox.com> <20080204210903.GD3959@baikonur.stro.at> <47A78949.7020803@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47A78949.7020803@pobox.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Moshe Yudkowsky Cc: maximilian attems , linux raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > >> error 15 is an *grub* error. >> >> grub is known for it's dislike of xfs, so with this whole setup use ext3 >> rerun grub-install and you should be fine. > > I should mention that something *did* change. When attempting to use > XFS, grub would give me a note about "18 partitions used" (I forget > the exact language). This was different than I'd remembered; when I > switched back to using reiserfs, grub reports using 19 partitions. > > So there's something definitely interesting about XFS and booting. > > As an additional note, if I use the grub boot-time commands to edit > root to read, e.g., root=/dev/sda2 or root=/dev/sdb2, I get the same > Error 15 error message. > > It may be that grub is complaining about grub and resiserfs, but I > suspect that it has a true complain about the file system and what's > on the partitions. > I think you have two choices, convert /boot to ext2 and be sure you are going down the best-tested code path, or fight and debug, read code, learn grub source, play with the init parts of the boot sequence, and then convert /boot to ext2 anyway. No matter how "better" something else might be, /boot has nothing I use except at boot, I don't need features or performance, I just want it to work. Unless you are so frustrated you have entered "I am going to make this *work* if it takes forever" mode, I would try the easy solution first. Just my take on it. -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark