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Graham Murray wrote: |
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> reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> writes: |
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>> yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, |
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>> it |
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>> even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 |
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>> root-filesystems? |
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>> i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. |
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> Grub is not incompatible with ext4 root filesystems as long as you, as |
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> you do, have a separate /boot partition with a 'supported' format. It |
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> works fine here with ext2 /boot and ext4 / - but I converted this using |
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> tune2fs from etx3 rather than creating a new etx4 root (but I did create |
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> a new ext4 /home on a different drive) |
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What you describe is pretty much my setup. I read that converting the FS |
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with tune2fs would not affect the storage of already existing files so i |
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thought it would be better to copy it all over. I also don't have another |
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64bit system with 2.6.28 kernel on my PC, so I tried it this way. |
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