On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:09 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:22 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > This feature is orthogonal to grub's first stage loader residing on > > XFS. > > > > ext2/3 leave 4KB of empty space before the filesystem actually starts. > > That makes it possible to share the partition between the boot loader > > and the filesystem. XFS, however, does not leave empty space at the > > beginning so you can't put grub/lilo on that. > > Ah, ok, so that explains how I was able to have an XFS / on several > machines. I put Grub in the MBR, not the boot block of the partition. > I was not aware that XFS does not leave space for a boot loader! Good > thing it Just Worked with Grub in the MBR.
Since it does work with GRUB in the MBR, is there any reason not to modify the message and grub-installer logic to allow grub in the MBR when XFS is used for /? I found that trying to do this with the present installer, it would attempt it, but would hang forever in grub-installer. On the third console it printed the message from grub about scanning for BIOS drives or whatever, but nothing else. Killing grub-installer and grub by hand makes the installer progress bar continue, and it thinks it has succeeded in installing grub. Back on console 2, I run grub by hand, and at it's prompt, I issue "setup (hd0) (hd0,N)" and it just works. Reboot succeeds, it boots Windows, etc. -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
