Bruce, On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:10 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:44, Magnus Boman wrote: > > I tried SLED10SP1B4 with XFS and I get the same issue. Then I tried with > > SLED10GA and I like the way it thinks. It won't even let me choose to > > install GRUB on the root partition if I use XFS, but when I select > > ReiserFS och ext3, I get the option to do it. > > So... My conclusion is that it's NOT possible to use XFS on an extended > > partition and have GRUB installed on it's root partition. > > Coming in late to this discussion but do you have /boot on its own partition? > > I would think that putting /boot in its own partition with ext2 would solve > the problem. The kernel and initrd can be loaded from the ext2 partition by > grub and the rest is up to the kernel.
I do have a separate ext2 partition for GRUB. But from that one, I only want to do a chainload to the GRUB that get's installed with the OS. And it doesn't seem to work if the filesystem is XFS. > I always have a separate /boot partition and it is always ext2. You don't > need a fancy FS for /boot. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
