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FS#13396 - 2009.02 installation CD cannot boot existing Linux when root partition is ext4

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Papadopoulos, Mihail (scarecrow) - Friday, 20 February 2009, 19:31 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Monday, 23 February 2009, 19:52 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Description:

Title says it all. No problems if the root partition is in another filesystem.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Monday, 23 February 2009, 19:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 20 February 2009, 19:47 GMT
  • Field changed: Attached to Project (Arch Linux → Release Engineering)
  • Field changed: Severity (Critical → Medium)
Which architecture are you using?
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 20 February 2009, 19:48 GMT
I wonder if the grub-gfx installed is somehow NOT the patched version that support ext4. You should still be able to chroot to an existing system from the CD and fix things, if you need this as a rescue CD.
Comment by Papadopoulos, Mihail (scarecrow) - Sunday, 22 February 2009, 19:07 GMT
It works. Not a bug, actually.
First I was not passing the correct commands to the kernel ( rootfstype=ext4 iommu=noaperture ) and after that I made a stupid mistake with the naming of my (separate) /boot partition.
With the correct parameters it does boot fine two existing installations - one with a separate /boot partition on ext2, as well as a laptop with no separate /boot
For the record I'm using i686

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