I've added a partman-xfs (in cvs) to debian-installer, and it seems to work. However, if my root filesystem is a xfs filesystem, grub-install seems to hang. ps shows: grub-install (hd0) /sbin/grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map Last message from grub is: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. I've let it sit for a good ten minutes; grub-install normally takes about 3 seconds on this machine. The system seems to be busy; load is 1 at points during this time. Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> has reported the same problem. I wonder if our grub maintainer can shed any light on this problem? I tried a ext3 /boot, and with that a root XFS works fine, no hang. If we need to work around it, one way would be to make partman check to see if /boot (or /) are xfs partitions, and if so, fail. Anton, could you help me do that, I don't know partman well enough yet.. -- see shy jo
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