On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 01:37:32PM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote: > As I put everything on XFS filesystems, there is need of a separate / > boot. > The installer complains that the /boot should be on ext2 fs, but I > thought that an ext3 partition works good too (I use /boot on ext3 on a > PWS)
Experience shows that aboot has problems with directory traversal on ext3 filesystems. If you have a separate /boot filesystem with the kernels in the top-level directory, ext3 *does* work; but if your root fs is ext3 and you don't have a separate /boot partition, it does not work. Encoding this logic in the installer would have been a bit much; it was more straightforward to always require ext2 on /boot, since the advantages of ext3 over ext2 don't generally apply to /boot anyway. > Is there a "to do list" page somewhere on the net? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
