Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 22:50:08 schrieb Ronald van Haren: > On 12/28/08, Tobias Powalowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > >> Hi guys, > >> http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ > >> for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in > >> patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing. > >> > >> greetings > >> tpowa > > > > Here is the request: > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 > > -- > > Tobias Powalowski > > Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) > > http://www.archlinux.org > > [email protected] > > woha, you just took an item of my todo list for this week. > > +1 for adding it to testing. > > Although grub2 should support ext4 (I did not test it) I think choice > is always a good thing. Between now and a stable release of grub2 > there will probably be a great lot of people switching to ext4, so > adding support for ext4 to grub should be the right thing to do imo. > > Ronald
I have checked this version of grub and it boots fine from ext4. Attention: I have also tested grub2 from extra, but it did not work. (after converting my / to ext4 grub2 was not able to install itself anymore) -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber [email protected] WWW http://www.archlinux.de
