Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:00:25PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > I'm afraid I can reproduce this too. With grub -7, the xfs_freeze stuff > > does happen, but the result seems to be that the grub command gets stuck > > in an uninterruptable sleep. I tried thawing the xfs partition after a > > few minutes, and grub happily continued with the install. I see the same > > kind of hang if I freeze an XFS partition and then try to write to it, > > so it seems like running the grub command must somehow be writing to the > > XFS partition as well as accessing it directly. It's seems we're damed > > if we do, and damned if we don't... > > > > FWIW, my test was with a system that had a single XFS partition for the > > whole root filesystem, including /boot. > > > > I thought perhaps it was the redirection of grub's output to a log file > > by grub-install, since writing to a log file when XFS is frozen could > > hang. But even after removing the redirection to $log_file, it still > > hangs. :-( > > Hi Joey, > > Could you try to mount / as readonly before grub-install is run? Doesn't grub-install copy things into /boot? My /boot was on the root filesystem in the test that I did. -- see shy jo
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