Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Brockway
On Mon, 8 Mar 2010, Ron Johnson wrote: grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. Grub can boot from xfs now. Lilo always could. If you install xfs as the root filesystem on older versions of Debian Stable the installer is smart enough to realise that Grub

/boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-08 18:35, thib wrote: Aioanei Rares wrote: xfs as a /boot partition? shivers Why not? [This is so going off topic.] grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though, really doesn't

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Ron Johnson wrote: grub (and maybe lilo) never used to be able to boot from an xfs partition. Grub is doing fine, although it's true it had some issues in the past (just read about them, actually). Can't talk about lilo. As for the shiver, I also am confused. A 64MB partition, though,

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread Single root

Re: /boot fs (was Re: /boot partition changes when it should not)

2010-03-08 Thread thib
Clive McBarton wrote: thib wrote: Maybe someone simply has reasons not to put /boot on a separate volume. Now I sure agree that it isn't needed in virtually every other cases, but would it really hurt? We are already discussing this in your thread Single root filesystem evilness decreasing