grub no longer being maintained? so Suse drops support for XFS boot?

[Jason White]

Linda Walsh <suse at tlinx.org> wrote:
>
> Re: "Grub supposedly unable to start if /boot is on xfs partition,
>    So, because grub is broken, XFS is no longer supported as    a boot 
> partition by Novell/SuSE. (!)...

I should point out that I had to install it using the grub shell; running
grub-install did not work.

Interestingly, Ubuntu are moving to Grub 2 as their default boot loader, a
precedent which other distributions may follow. (Disclaimer: I read the
announcement, but I'm not a Ubuntu user.)