This is getting somewhat weird:
I did four installations last evening (on virtualbox), all with a partitioning
scheme like this:
/dev/sda1 / btrfs
/dev/sda5 swap swap
and they were all successful, as long as grub is used as bootloader!
(but there is a small regression, please read further.)
I don't know, what happened Friday, when it failed, but yesterday it
worked, and I did everything identical as Friday IMO ~:-|
Used images were beta3-i386-netinst and beta3-i386-cd1.
The only problem I have identified is, that Lilo fails to install, when
/boot is on a btrfs filesystem.
syslog contains this:
Unpacking lilo (from .../l/lilo/lilo_23.2-4_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up lilo (1:23.2-4) ...
WARNING: Added option 'large-memory', please run 'lilo' before you
reboot.
+ boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-VBOX_HARDDISK_VBf9b9608c-a59c7d6e
+ root = "UUID=5400ffbc-ecod-47de-8103-32f2de035311"
WARNING: If boot / root options were converted, please run 'lilo'
before you reboot.
Running lilo ...
Warning:
LBA32 addressing assumed
Fatal.
Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0013 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)
dpkg: error processing lilo (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 1
Error were encountered while processing:
lilo
E
:
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
One more test installation with a partition scheme like this:
/dev/sda1 / btrfs
/dev/sda2 /boot ext4
/dev/sda5 swap swap
leaded to a successful lilo installation. So, lilo is not able to read
from a btrfs filesystem.
Thus I have reassigned this bug to lilo
and renamed it accordingly.
Summary:
Installing grub on btrfs worked. But when booting, it takes a relative
long time for grub to load and display the grub menu (compared with a
grub installation on ext4 for example). You could think the machine
hangs, shutdown and ask for help on debian-boot ;-)
Because of this, it should be added to the errata, that /boot should
be ext4 for example, when / is btrfs (lilo completely fails to install
on btrfs, and grub shows some restrictions).
Holger
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