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From: "Linda A. Walsh" <suse@tlinx.org>
To: SuSE Linux <opensuse@opensuse.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: grub no longer being maintained?  drops support for XFS?
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A31E0FF.8050400@tlinx.org> (raw)

I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792,
that reports a problem in OpenSUSE with Grub being unable to boot with
XFS when someone upgraded from OpenSuSE11.0 to OpenSuSE11.1.
Quote:

Grub is unable to start if /boot is on xfs partition.
Found after updating from 11.0 to 11.1.

Response from Novell:

------- Comment #1 From Jiri Srain (jsrain(at)novell(dot)com) 2008-12-18 04:24:39 MST 
-------

We agreed with product management that /boot on XFS will not be a supported
bootloader scenario. See relevant thread on factory to see explanations;
successful booting from XFS is just a pure luck.

Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should
be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still
supports high performance file systems like XFS.



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             reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-12  5:00 Linda A. Walsh [this message]
2009-06-12  5:27 ` grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS? Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-12  5:49   ` Jason White
2009-06-12  6:13     ` Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-12  6:38   ` grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot? Linda Walsh
2009-06-12  9:14     ` Jason White
2009-06-12  9:28     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2009-06-12  9:44       ` Michael Weissenbacher
2009-06-12 10:16         ` Jason White
2009-06-12 14:28 ` grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS? Eric Sandeen

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