Re: grub disaster with FC4 & XFS

[James Pearson <james-p@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Not sure if anyone is aware of this mess of a bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160444
>
> Basically grub pukes all over itself when trying to interact with XFS 
> filesystems, resulting in an unbootable, or barely bootable FC4 
> installation.
>
> Any gurus here know of a solution?
>
> Yes, i know, this is really a FC/grub issue, but since its specific to 
> XFS, i thought someone might have run into it and found a workaround 
> and/or fix.

Not sure if this is connected, but the FC installer (anaconda) uses the 
code in 'booty' to install the bootloader - this has a work around for 
grub on XFS which uses xfs_freeze - see the thread that starts with:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=108009684613605&w=2

However, anaconda doesn't include /usr/sbin/xfs_freeze (and 
/usr/sbin/xfs_io) on the stage2 installer images.

As I said above, I don't know if it's connnected, as I haven't installed 
FC4.

Unfortunately, it's not straight forward to get xfs_freeze and xfs_io 
included unless you patch the anaconda src RPM and rebuild the install 
media ...

James Pearson