Valent Turkovic wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
