[gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,
has anybody experienced problems with grub-1.9x .
Since I take an Ext4 boot partition into consideration
I'd need either a patched grub-0.97 (GoSC patch) or
grub-1.97.
Has anybody tried an Ext4 boot partition?

Many thanks for sharing your experience,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[Neil Bothwick]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 449 bytes --]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 10:38:37 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> has anybody experienced problems with grub-1.9x .
> Since I take an Ext4 boot partition into consideration
> I'd need either a patched grub-0.97 (GoSC patch) or
> grub-1.97.

According to the Changelog, grub-0.97-r9 has had Ext4 support since the
start of the year.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered
plant?

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 198 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[pk]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> has anybody experienced problems with grub-1.9x .
> Since I take an Ext4 boot partition into consideration
> I'd need either a patched grub-0.97 (GoSC patch) or
> grub-1.97.
> Has anybody tried an Ext4 boot partition?
> 
> Many thanks for sharing your experience,

Unfortunately I don't have any experience with the would-be-grub2, yet.
However I am also interested in if anyone has experiences with it, since
it seems like other projects are beginning migrate to it...

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UseGRUB2

http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/06/grub2-is-now-default-at-new-ubuntu.html

http://grub.enbug.org/

Best regards

Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[Nich]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 621 bytes --]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 21:47, pk <peterk2@coolmail.se> wrote <snip>:

> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Has anybody tried an Ext4 boot partition?
>

I don't have any experence with Ext4, however i have been running grub '2'
for a while now with out any real issues other than the occasional build
issue (as I'm using grub-9999).


>
> > Many thanks for sharing your experience,
>

My plesure and best of luck - there is a reasonable how to on the
Gentoo-Wiki [1], the only thing I would say is that the grub-mkconfig script
can take a bit of time to detect all of your kernels

Nich

[1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1192 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-user] experience with grub-1.9x ?

[Greg Fitzgerald]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:38:37AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> has anybody experienced problems with grub-1.9x .
> Since I take an Ext4 boot partition into consideration
> I'd need either a patched grub-0.97 (GoSC patch) or
> grub-1.97.
> Has anybody tried an Ext4 boot partition?

I have been running 0.97-r9 for several months with a ext4 /boot. Seems
to work just fine. ext4 support is patched into the ebuild.


-- 
Greg Fitzgerald