5627 – /boot over btrfs is not bootable

Bug 5627 - /boot over btrfs is not bootable

Summary: /boot over btrfs is not bootable

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Mageia
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Installer (show other bugs)
Version:	Cauldron
Hardware:	x86_64 Linux

Priority:	release_blocker Severity: critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Pascal Terjan
QA Contact:

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Keywords:	NEEDINFO, PATCH

Depends on:
Blocks:

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eg this patch. WDYT? (1.47 KB, patch) 2012-04-28 14:28 CEST, Thierry Vignaud	Details \| Diff
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Description Kamil Rytarowski 2012-04-27 08:56:03 CEST

Description of problem:
When installing /boot over a separate partition, it's not bootable with GRUB. It says "Error 17"

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-27 10:50:24 CEST

how is it formated? btrfs too? ext4?

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Kamil Rytarowski 2012-04-27 21:22:23 CEST

sda1 btrfs
sda2 encrypted LVM with root / and swap

This is working:
sda1 ext4
sda2 encrypted LVM with root / btrfs and swap

Comment 3 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-28 14:28:39 CEST

Pascal, you should blacklist btrfs for /boot

Assignee: bugsquad => pterjan

Comment 4 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-28 14:28:56 CEST

Created attachment 2130 [details]
eg this patch. WDYT?

Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-28 14:29:10 CEST

Keywords: (none) => PATCH

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-28 14:30:58 CEST

Let's fix this before the release

Priority: Normal => release_blocker

Comment 6 Pascal Terjan 2012-04-28 16:21:09 CEST

Yes this patch looks correct

Comment 7 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-29 14:19:59 CEST

Commited in SVN

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 8 Thierry Vignaud 2012-04-30 10:14:45 CEST

Can you check current boot.iso (performing a network install) and verify it's OK?

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