From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id n5C50f4p189228 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:42 -0500 Received: from Ishtar.tlinx.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 7B4BC120B6A1 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ishtar.tlinx.org (ishtar.tlinx.org [64.81.245.74]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id y1gxhONFdlHVhyCF for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:08:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A31E0FF.8050400@tlinx.org> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:00:47 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS? List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: SuSE Linux Cc: xfs-oss 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. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs