On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 01:09:42PM -0400, David Masover wrote: > Christian Trefzer wrote: > > Few people keep a 32MB ext2 for /boot purposes these days, so it > > really is imperative that grub can read kernel images off a reiser4 > > /. > > I think there are patches, but I do keep a 32 meg ext3 for /boot, > because it seems like no matter what FS I choose, there's some sort of > caveat involving Grub. I know when installing XFS as a root FS on > Ubuntu, it talks about Grub problems...
New installations is what I had in mind there. People see they could use something fancy, but their bootloader-du-jour won't take it. Bummer. The warning message is the only thing keeping folks from running into a broken installation. No good. > I mean, having Grub support everything would be nice, but if you're > reformatting anyway, I don't think it's that imperative. Yeah, _if_ you are s.o. who knows how to turn a partition table upside down without losing a single bit of data. Even then, it is quite a hassle to move the start of a partition 4 cylinders up to make room for an all-compatible ext2 /boot ; ) Grub is a bootloader and as such should (as an optimum) be able to grab kernels off of any fs. I guess patches are accepted by upstream developers? Kind regards, Chris
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