On 12/29/08, Ronald van Haren <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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) >> > > I will check into the grub2 issue in that case. > > Ronald >
I just checked in a new snapshot which adds ext4 support to grub2. Some things to note if you want to try: * add 'rootfstype=ext4' to your kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg if you want to boot from ext4 * make sure you don't use autodetect in your initramfs image. mkinitcpio is not able to correctly detect ext4. See also [1] for a possible fix to mkinitcpio. Rebuild the image if you have to change something. That should cover it I think. Let me know if you experience any issues. Ronald [1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-December/003086.html
