[arch-dev-public] grub with ext4 support
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing.
greetings tpowa Here is the request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
On 12/28/08, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing.
greetings tpowa Here is the request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
woha, you just took an item of my todo list for this week. +1 for adding it to testing. Although grub2 should support ext4 (I did not test it) I think choice is always a good thing. Between now and a stable release of grub2 there will probably be a great lot of people switching to ext4, so adding support for ext4 to grub should be the right thing to do imo. Ronald
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 22:50:08 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
On 12/28/08, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing.
greetings tpowa
Here is the request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
woha, you just took an item of my todo list for this week.
+1 for adding it to testing.
Although grub2 should support ext4 (I did not test it) I think choice is always a good thing. Between now and a stable release of grub2 there will probably be a great lot of people switching to ext4, so adding support for ext4 to grub should be the right thing to do imo.
Ronald
I have checked this version of grub and it boots fine from ext4. Attention: I have also tested grub2 from extra, but it did not work. (after converting my / to ext4 grub2 was not able to install itself anymore) -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 22:50:08 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
On 12/28/08, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing.
greetings tpowa
Here is the request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
woha, you just took an item of my todo list for this week.
+1 for adding it to testing.
Although grub2 should support ext4 (I did not test it) I think choice is always a good thing. Between now and a stable release of grub2 there will probably be a great lot of people switching to ext4, so adding support for ext4 to grub should be the right thing to do imo.
Ronald
I have checked this version of grub and it boots fine from ext4. Attention: I have also tested grub2 from extra, but it did not work. (after converting my / to ext4 grub2 was not able to install itself anymore)
I will check into the grub2 issue in that case. Ronald
On 12/29/08, Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 22:50:08 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
On 12/28/08, Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de> wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Dezember 2008 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
Hi guys, http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/grub/ for testing purpose, i haven't tested it myself, if you guys agree in patching grub for ext4 support i can check it in to testing.
greetings tpowa
Here is the request: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12576 -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org
woha, you just took an item of my todo list for this week.
+1 for adding it to testing.
Although grub2 should support ext4 (I did not test it) I think choice is always a good thing. Between now and a stable release of grub2 there will probably be a great lot of people switching to ext4, so adding support for ext4 to grub should be the right thing to do imo.
Ronald
I have checked this version of grub and it boots fine from ext4. Attention: I have also tested grub2 from extra, but it did not work. (after converting my / to ext4 grub2 was not able to install itself anymore)
I will check into the grub2 issue in that case.
Ronald
I just checked in a new snapshot which adds ext4 support to grub2. Some things to note if you want to try: * add 'rootfstype=ext4' to your kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.cfg if you want to boot from ext4 * make sure you don't use autodetect in your initramfs image. mkinitcpio is not able to correctly detect ext4. See also [1] for a possible fix to mkinitcpio. Rebuild the image if you have to change something. That should cover it I think. Let me know if you experience any issues. Ronald [1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2008-December/003086.html
Am Montag 29 Dezember 2008 11:45:11 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
I just checked in a new snapshot which adds ext4 support to grub2.
Is it still needed to use the i686 version of grub2 on x86_64? I thought they had fixed that problem. -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre@jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de
On 12/29/08, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Montag 29 Dezember 2008 11:45:11 schrieb Ronald van Haren:
I just checked in a new snapshot which adds ext4 support to grub2.
Is it still needed to use the i686 version of grub2 on x86_64? I thought they had fixed that problem.
yes, seems to be still needed. Would be nice if they fix it some time not too far in the future. Ronald
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Pierre Schmitz
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Ronald van Haren
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Tobias Powalowski