2008/2/9, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Creating a boot filesystem with the default settings for mke2fs will > render grub useless because grub can't read partitions created with it. > > The issue is that the inode size is 256 by default, which is compatible > with kernel 2.6.10 and higher. Older kernels, and also grub won't work > with anything else than 128, which is the default according to the > manpage (but clearly isn't). > > We should fix this before making our new installer CD and we should nag > upstream about this. During my search for a solution, I found not a > single solution, but several forum posts coming from several > distributions, all without solution other than "install lilo, grub is > broken on my distro". >
That sucks. :-( Where the hell those developers look before doing such stupid incompatible changes? :-/ -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
