Re: GRUB and the risk of block list corruption in extX

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On 2/9/13 6:17 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On 2013-02-07 15:50:07 GMT Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
>> To be clear, this is only the case when installing the bootloader
>> itself to a partition containing a filesystem, not when installing
>> to the MBR, correct?
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> Which is different than saying "/boot is on ext4" - it's putting
>> the bootloader itself on a partition containing a filesystem,
>> something which is a bit more unusual, I think.
> 
> Some users apparently want distribution specific boot loaders as
> secondary, chain loaded from a primary boot loader that goes in the
> MBR gap.
> 

Understood, just didn't want this to turn into a "grub2 doesn't work
on ext4?!" meme.  :)

Thanks,
-Eric
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