Bug 18472

Description of problem:

Installed Mageia 6 dev 1.  I had Mageia4 installed on the boot disk with root / using an XFS file system. Install is OK.  When Grub boot's it doesn't recognize the XFS filesystem as a valid filesystem and throws an Error 17. A couple of google searches lead me to ubuntu that had all kinds of wrong advise. What I found was If you have XFS as your root/boot in the install select grup2 in the boot loader and things will go smooth. Maybe Mageia 6 should select grub2 by default?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Mageia 6 dev 1

How reproducible:
Install Mageia 6 from DVD and build with xfs root partition.  I've been told other files system types like Brtfs on / will generate the same error.  

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As an enhancement bug; 

Editorial: I'm not a fan of cryptic error messages like Error 17 without the software providing an explanation of the error. In the old days of limited memory systems every byte counted, so something like: ERR17 was acceptable and kept the message to 5 bytes. Since limitations like that don't exist in modern systems, can we be a little more vocal about the issue; in this case Error 17 should say something like; "Error 17. This error occurs when grub version 1 does not have the proper library installed to read your / partition to continue with a stage 2 boot process. Too resolve this error, we recommend that you install and use grub2 as your boot loader on this type system.  Further reading at http:// ..."