Re: reiser4 and grub2

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On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:04:51 +0200, Edward Shishkin
<edward.shishkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> sannikov wrote:
>> Good day.
>>   
> 
> Hello.
> 
>> I want to ask you about reiser4 and grub-2.
>>
>> I am try to write to Yuriy Umanets but his mailboxes are inactive...
>> Some few days ago I findes his request about this.
>> (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00263.html)
>>
>> If it is possible, can you describe current state of Raiser4 support in
>> Grub2.
>>   
> 
> Unsupported.
> 
>> As I know this task yet  placed in Grub's TODO list.
>> I hope this idea yet alive.
>>   
> 
> I didn't look at grub2/fs interface yet, but believe that it
> is better then grub1's one.
> 
> There is a patch for reiser4 support in grub1. I don't
> think it will be a big problem to adjust this one for grub2:
> the sources are quite understandable.
> 
> The only thing I am unhappy with is that it can not boot
> reiser4 via module stage1_5 (it is too big and can not
> fit in 62 sectors), It means that user will need to re-install
> grub every time after defragmentation (currently
> unsupported, but upcoming). So it would be nice to resolve
> this problem in grub2 somehow.
> 
> Btrfs stage1_5 module with multi-device support
> successfully fits in 62 sectors. Why reiser4 can not?
> I think we need to get rid of the mini-library with a lot
> of unneeded functions and put everything in one file
> (as other file systems do).
> 
> Thanks,
> Edward.
> 
Looks like some others have had a go at compiling grub2 ,see:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.2/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/i586/grub2-1.98-18.1.i586.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/src/grub2-1.98-18.1.src.rpm

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/reinauer/openSUSE_Factory/x86_64/grub2-1.98-18.1.x86_64.rpm

Glenn