Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] grub fs support
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:39:04
Message-Id: d257c3560901260039g798cadceh44f4d86d64b0c1f2@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] grub fs support by Saphirus Sage
1 2009/1/26 Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@×××××.com>:
2 > Wil Reichert wrote:
3 >> Anyone know if grub-static-0.97-r9 supports ext4? There seem to be
4 >> patches floating around which add support, but I'm unable to tell if
5 >> the gentoo version has this or not.
6 >>
7 >> Wil
8 >>
9 >>
10 > GRUB really only supports ext2. This is perfectly fine really, given
11 > your boot partition is small anyways, and there would be minimal benefit
12 > from upgrading to ext3 or ext4... not to mention the fact that it would
13 > be unbootable. So yeah, stick with ext2 for the boot partition.
14 >
15 my /boot is on a reiserfs partition and grub works well.
16
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18 dott. ing. beso