Valent Turkovic wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Scott Robbins
<scottro(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:15:19PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Will Woods wrote:
>
>>> Oh, and by the way.. if you're like me, and you're installing from
the
>>> Live image anyway, you might think: "Hey, I'll migrate the
filesystem
>>> after the install finishes, before I reboot into the new system". Nice
>>> idea, but if you don't rebuild the initrd after migrating the rootfs to
>>> ext4, the system won't boot. Yeah, found that out the hard way.
>>>
>> Also ... 'migrating' at this point doesn't gain you a lot; only new
>> files after this will be written in extents format.
> Lastly keep in mind (it's mentioned in the release notes, but bit at
> least one friend) that you MUST have a separate ext2 or 3 /boot
> partition at this point. The included grub won't boot ext4, so you have
> to have that.
>
What do you mean exactly by "included grub won't boot ext4"? Is there
some other version of grub that supports ext4? Will that version of
grub be included in final Fedora 11?
Valent.
There is a patch, and a bug open, but as of today grub isn't even
building in rawhide so I've not been able to test it ...
I hope we can get it into f11 but no promises; OTOH with the default of
root on lvm, and thereby a need for a separate /boot, I'm not overly
concerned about having ext3 on /boot (compared to, say, making ext4 solid)
-Eric