On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:43:02AM -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > 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 /? It doesn't. The *default* is to install grub to the MBR; the problem is that grub also tries to directly read the contents of the filesystem in order to verify the presence of the second-stage bootloader, which doesn't work because the journal data hasn't been written to its final location yet on disk. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
