Re: grub no longer being maintained? drops support for XFS?

[Sujit Karataparambil <sjt.kar@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is an Known Issue. Grub hangs when used With XFS. You could
Try Lilo instead. But does the same with my experiance.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Linda A. Walsh<suse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just saw this bug, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459792,
> that reports a problem in OpenSUSE with Grub being unable to boot with
> XFS when someone upgraded from OpenSuSE11.0 to OpenSuSE11.1.
> Quote:
>
> Grub is unable to start if /boot is on xfs partition.
> Found after updating from 11.0 to 11.1.
>
> Response from Novell:
>
> ------- Comment #1 From Jiri Srain (jsrain(at)novell(dot)com) 2008-12-18
> 04:24:39 MST -------
>
> We agreed with product management that /boot on XFS will not be a supported
> bootloader scenario. See relevant thread on factory to see explanations;
> successful booting from XFS is just a pure luck.
>
> Perhaps if Grub can't support XFS, the default bootloader should
> be upgraded to 'lilo' -- as it still seems to be maintained and still
> supports high performance file systems like XFS.
>
>
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