Re: grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS?

Sujit Karataparambil
2009-06-12T05:27:09Z

This is an Known Issue. Grub hangs when used With XFS. You could
Try Lilo instead. But does the same with my experiance.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Linda A. Walsh<suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
> 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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