On 22.04.2011 18:29, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 04/21/11 15:31, Colin Watson wrote: > > > You mean if you install the boot loader itself into a partition > > containing such a filesystem? grub-setup already emits fairly noisy > > warnings when you install to a partition containing a filesystem, which > > are intended to cover pretty much this kind of thing. If people are > > ignoring the existing warnings, it's not clear to me how adding more > > warnings would help. > > > Looking at grub2 1.99~rc1 it seems there is no warning/error message > about installing or upgrading it on a reiserfs partition mounted without > notail. Other warnings or error messages are out of scope here. > > IMHO grub's preinst should display an error message and stop, since > the missing notail might result in an unbootable system. > GRUB2 shouldn't have any problem with a reiserfs without notail, except when installed in blocklist mode, where there are enough warnings already and if tails are encountered for core.img, the installation simply fails. > > Regards > > Harri
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