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GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10Posted Jun 25, 2009 20:36 UTC (Thu) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322)In reply to: GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10 by alankila Parent article: GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10
It was at least solved in recent Debian versions of GRUB Legacy by way of xfs_freeze -f/-u, so in the worst case it'd be straightforward to apply the same hack for GRUB 2; I forget where this came up, but I understand that the XFS kernel code itself is also better at handling freeze/thaw now in a way that isn't quite so unfriendly to GRUB.
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GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10 Posted Jul 4, 2009 9:58 UTC (Sat) by abpsoft (guest, #53672) [Link]
Calling it solved is a bit bold - that xfs_freeze hack has the tendency of freezing - indeed - the whole box solid, provided that system has / (including /boot) on XFS and an unsuspecting admin tries to run grub-install. That hack might work when run from d-i, but in a live system (let's say, after upgrading from etch to lenny and pondering whether it may be time to finally replace LILO) it's a disaster. It should at least print a big fat warning before actually freezing a live FS that might have plenty of write activity.
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