Bug 69590

Summary:	reiser4 support for grub
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Hesse <mail>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	artem.egorkine, m.debruijne, MrChristenson, radek, t1m, vapier
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	110_all_grub-reiser4.patch Ebuild with optional reiser4 patch

Description Christian Hesse 2004-10-31 02:54:17 UTC

The namesys webpage provides a patch for grub make it aware of reiser4:

ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/

This version of grub works for me. I would like to see it in portage tree.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge grub
2. install grub on reiser4 partitions
Actual Results:  
grub can't be installed as it can work with reiser4.

Expected Results:  
It should be possible to install grub on reiser4 partitions.

Comment 1 Robert Moss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-11-09 13:53:50 UTC

Sorry, I'm not going to add reiser4 support to grub any time soon. It bloats the stage1_5 stuff too far on many systems, regardless of target file system, rendering them unbootable.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-04-07 06:13:46 UTC

*** Bug 88252 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Artem Egorkine 2005-04-07 06:22:15 UTC

Why not make it conditional on USE="reiser4", for example?

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-04-09 18:17:06 UTC

*** Bug 88523 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-26 04:44:48 UTC

110_all_grub-reiser4.patch I'm going to attach at this bug work on x86.
It's tested and running here (sys-boot/grub-0.96-r3).

It apply to sys-boot/grub-0.96-r3 and grub-0.97 (vanilla) .

since it's already a certain time reiser4 is in mm kernels, and it will reach
vanilla ones some time in the future may be a good idea to add it.

vapier, added you after cat-ting the ChangeLog ;-)

Comment 6 Francesco R. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-10-26 04:46:42 UTC

Created attachment 71494 [details, diff]
110_all_grub-reiser4.patch

patch, tested on x86 system , it can boot reiser4 and reiserfs filesystems
(others untested).

Comment 7 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-11-07 18:53:36 UTC

in portage

Comment 8 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-11-10 07:49:59 UTC

*** Bug 112050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Johannes Christenson 2005-11-10 10:03:40 UTC

Created attachment 72586 [details]
Ebuild with optional reiser4 patch

I added the USE word "reiser4" and made it possible to install grub-0.97-r2
with the patch.

Comment 10 Johannes Christenson 2005-11-14 23:17:18 UTC

Why isn't there an option to reopen this bug. It should be reopened since the
fix is removed.

Comment 11 Johannes Christenson 2005-11-15 08:28:38 UTC

Now there is a option to reopen this bug, but apparently I'm not authorized to 
do so. Could I be authorized, please!