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OneOfMany
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Location: Portland, OR USA
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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 11:04 pm Post subject: JFS for boot partition, Grub troubles |
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I was trying to use JFS for all my partitions (saw some benchmarks that showed it as the least CPU intensive of the usual filesystems). I formatted the partition as JFS and when I ran grub to setup the MBR it wouldn't let me "setup (hd0)" ("root (hd0,0)" worked fine and showed it as JFS). It would just sit there. Nothing I typed made a difference on the screen, except I could ctrl-c out just fine. I tried this twice thinking I just had a glitch of some sort. Is this a grub issue or is it related to the initial kernel that the live cd uses? I'm using the Gentoo v1.4 Pentium III GRP CD1 for installation.
To make sure this is the problem I'm switching just the boot partition to ext3 and trying again. |
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paradox508
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| Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:19 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I was trying to use JFS for all my partitions |
Well I don't mean to sound like a smart ass, but don't try to use jfs for all. your /boot should ideally be ext2/3. I doubt you will take a performance hit as the only thing on the /boot partition is your boot loader. You can however continue to use JFS for all other file systems on the machine and still benifit from any increase in performance you might get with JFS.
Cheers!
'Dox |
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OneOfMany
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| Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, that was my workaround. But I'm wondering if it's a GRUB thing or a Gentoo thing (ie, if the kernel that Gentoo uses for it's first boot was configured differently could this work)? |
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