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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #59468
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 59468

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Anthony David (adavid-adavid) wrote :

Interesting tidbit in in messages:

Oct 7 13:40:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Oct 7 13:40:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
Oct 7 13:40:10 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: Due to a bug in xfs_freeze, the following command might produce a segmentation
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: fault when /boot/grub is not in an XFS filesystem. This error is harmless and
Oct 7 13:40:14 ubuntu grub-installer: can be ignored.
Oct 7 13:40:15 ubuntu grub-installer: xfs_freeze: specified file ["/boot/grub"] is not on an XFS filesystem
Oct 7 13:40:15 ubuntu grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.:

My inital comment was inspired by fact I have been running OpenSuSE 10.1 with xfs /boot on another laptop for 3 months now. currently
2.6.16.21-0.13 SuSE kernel