Have just installed Centos-6 from a Linux Format DVD. The install went smoothly, although the installer inisisted that the root partition had to be formatted ext4.
When my GAG boot loader tried to boot from that root partition, it was unable do so.
Elsewhere I read that GAG cannot boot from an ext4 parititon.
I there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition?
Maurice Batey wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:22:34 +0100, I wrote:
there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition?
Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list.
Sorry, I seem to have missed the start of this thread, and certainly don't understand it. Certainly, all the systems I've upgraded to CentOS 6, including the one I'm writing this on, are all booting off ext3 /boot partitions.
mark
there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition?
Seems not, so - sadly - have crossed Centos off my list.
Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ?
CentOS6/SL6 does support ext4 as a root device (My webserver is currently doing so) but I still keep /boot as ext3.
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:08:20 -0700, Drew wrote:
Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ?
That's what it did.
I still keep /boot as ext3.
OIC. So it needs an extra (ext3) /boot partition, as well as /. Now, if the installer had offered that, things might have been different!
On 9/19/2011 2:18 PM, Maurice Batey wrote:
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:08:20 -0700, Drew wrote:
Did the installer try to install /boot in the same partition as / ?
That's what it did.
I still keep /boot as ext3.
OIC. So it needs an extra (ext3) /boot partition, as well as /. Now, if the installer had offered that, things might have been different!
It is there. I don't recall exactly how I got to it... I think I selected 'Customize' at the point where you can choose your packages and then I selected that I wanted to set the partitions myself. I got the same partition interface I've always gotten with CentOS installs... but it wasn't as obvious during the install process. It seems like some of these buttons might be sort of greyed out, but in fact they are live buttons. Sorry I don't remember the exact process. It's been a couple of weeks since doing the last install.
John Hinton
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:31:41 -0400, John Hinton wrote:
I selected 'Customize' at the point where you can choose your packages and then I selected that I wanted to set the partitions myself.
That's what I did.
I got the same partition interface I've always gotten with CentOS installs... but it wasn't as obvious during the install process. It seems like some of these buttons might be sort of greyed out, but in fact they are live buttons.
I might just have another try, just out of curiousity! Perhaps I missed what I was not then looking for.
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