On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:58 +0100, Momesso Andrea wrote: > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:49:36 +0000 > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > > > > P.S. I'm not using vgextend to simply add sda4 to the lvm because > > > > I might want to migrate my root (sda1) to ext4 > > > > > > Why do want to do that? ext4 is just a couple of months old and > > > there's no proof of stability whatsoever for it. Better try it with > > > uncritical data partitions (portage tree, distfiles) first. > > > > Yet if you do, the latest GRUB boots from ext4 partitions, so you > > don't need to separate /boot. > > > > > > I heard it can boot from ext4 using a patch that is not 100% safe... > Does anyone have positive (or negative) experience with that?
You don't need to apply any patch; it comes with GRUB. I didn't get any "WARNING: this patch will fuck your box" messages when I installed it. In my experience I haven't seen any difference between it and the 25 or so other patches that Gentoo applies to GRUB.
