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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Re: Grub bugs ... should I file separate bugs for each one?
From:       Per Jessen <per () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2009-06-13 18:44:09
Message-ID: h10s1p$el8$2 () saturn ! local ! net
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Linda Walsh wrote:

> I again, recommend the remarkably practical actions of Ubuntu in
> this matter.  If the user chooses XFS as a file system, the default
> boot loader automatically switches to LILO.  If they user overrides
> this -- they are warned that GRUB is buggy with journaled file systems
> and may not work.  Simple as that.

GRUB has a problem with journaled file systems?  I'm a lilo+jfs user
anyway, but any argument for keeping lilo supported in YaST is a Good
Thing(r).

> AND please, people -- GET OFF the idea that '/boot' SHOULD be a
> separate partition.  It's 1) anachronistic, and 2) good _unix_
> practice. No one from the Win-world puts their Win boot files {IO.SYS,
> MSDOS.SYS, NTDETECT.COM, boot.ini, AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, ntldr}
> files on a separate partition.  To even think about such an absurdity
> would get you laughed at.  It's not normal. 

There used to be one very good reason for having a separate /boot
partition - namely lilos 1024 cylinder restriction.


/Per

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Per Jessen, Zürich (22.7 °C)

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