Bug 429042

Summary:	Installation fails when / is formatted with XFS
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1	Reporter:	Stefan Nordhausen <nordhaus>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	forgotten_d8u6e9Lt6y
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Stefan Nordhausen 2008-09-23 08:29:26 UTC

I wanted to install with / formatted with XFS and no seperate /boot partition. Formatting went well, but while installing the packages the installer froze at 44% complete. The shell showed process "grub" taking 99% CPU.

After that I tried again, but this time / formatted with ext3. This worked as expected. If I am not mistaken the freeze happened while the grub package was being installed (with ext3, grub was installed at 44% complete) so it was probably some pre- or post-install script of the grub rpm that caused the freeze.

Comment 2 Forgotten User d8u6e9Lt6y 2008-10-01 06:48:43 UTC

Yes, I confirm to me has happened!
If I install XFS partition on the system froze!!!

(in the grub pakage??!!??!!:-))

but not always (2 times of 3)

Ciao da Andrea

Comment 3 Torsten Duwe 2008-10-06 15:31:36 UTC

Yes this is known. Grub's XFS code is fairly unmaintainable and hence unsupported, an ext2 /boot is strongly advisable. Yast should point this out.

Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2008-10-14 07:27:06 UTC

I've added a warning when you install on root on XFS without separate /boot partition.