On Monday 25 December 2006 03:25am, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 22:29 -0700, Lamont Peterson wrote: > > On Friday 22 December 2006 03:52pm, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 09:32 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > -grub- doesn't support LVM. > > > (Same goes for xfs, reiserfs and at least 95 other file systems) > > > > On FC5 (this notebook): > > > > # ls /boot/grub/ > > default fat_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 reiserfs_stage1_5 > > stage2.old > > device.map ffs_stage1_5 menu.lst splash.xpm.gz > > ufs2_stage1_5 > > device.map.old grub.conf menu.lst.old stage1 > > vstafs_stage1_5 > > e2fs_stage1_5 iso9660_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 stage2 > > xfs_stage1_5 > > > > I see xfs and reiserfs there. IIRC, both have been present in GRUB at > > least as far back as RHL8.0, though xfs might not have appeared until FC2 > > (I don't remember for sure, but I think it was there earlier). > > I stand corrected then. > Last time I tried using boot on xfs (back in FC3) it failed miserably. > (root (hdx,x) failed to detect the stage 1.5) > Never the less, it does not change what I said. > Grub doesn't support software RAID5/6 - should I stop using them? You are correct there, and I agree with you. What GRUB supports has nothing to do with what the kernel supports. GRUB reads the kernel (vmlinuz) and initrd into memory and punts the ball. From that point on, GRUB support doesn't matter. FYI, I use reiserfs, xfs and (sometimes) ext3 for my systems' partitions, but I always use ext3 for /boot/ (100-250MB, depending on how many distros are to be installed). BTW, just for the benefit of those reading this in the archives in the future, GRUB will work when /boot/ is on top of software RAID1, but it is rarely done as one might have to alter the /boot/grub/grub.conf (/boot/grub/menu.lst on all other distros) to read the correct disk the first one goes out. For example, changing (hd0,0) to (hd1.0) throughout the file. -- Lamont Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] NOTE: All messages from this email address should be digitally signed with my 0xDC0DD409 GPG key. It is available on the pgp.mit.edu keyserver as well as other keyservers that sync with MIT's.
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