Re: GRUB can't dual boot both openSUSE 10.2 and 11.0
- From: VWWall <vwall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:35:55 -0700
Don Raboud wrote:
VWWall wrote:Another potential problem:
Does anybody know if SUSE 11.0 formats its partitions at install using
ext3 with 256 bit inodes. This can cause a problem with older GRUB.
Fedora 9 has this problem.
Several new distros are doing this, claiming the 256 bit inode is a step
towards ext4. I ran into this problem when installing Mandriva 2009 in
my multi-boot system.--it may not apply to SUSE 11.0 at all, but may be
a "heads up" for future releases.
Yes it does. From the release notes:
Inode Size on the Ext3 Filesystem Increased
The inode size on the ext3 filesystem is increased from 128 to 256 by
default. This change breaks many existing ext3 tools such as the windows
tool EXTFS.
It not only "breaks" Ext2IFS, but windows' own "Disk Management" will not show partition labels with the new partitions.
If you depend on such tools, install openSUSE with the old value.
Thanks for the info. I hadn't tried SUSE 11.0 yet, but had the problem with a fresh install of Mandriva 2009. This install has a check-box for formatting, so it's possible to pre-format with the old ext3 and un-check the "format" box during install.
For some work-around: (I assume this would work with SUSE 11.0.)
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=191363
"There's been some talk lately and a Bugzilla report about the problem being caused for GRUB by the 256-byte inodes in the filesystems apparently created by default in Fedora 9. People have discovered that GRUBs that have not been patched for this issue (older Fedoras and some other distros) can't boot Fedora 9. Some of them resorted to installing Fedora 9 into partitions created in advance with 128-byte inodes. That worked to allow older existing GRUB boot loader arrangements to boot Fedora 9."
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Virg Wall
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