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Re: ppc64el Trixie Alpha 1 /boot may be ext2 not ext4



Hi,

Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:44:27 +0100):
> In a perfect world, all boot loaders would support /boot on ext4 and we 
> would not have to make trade-offs. Indeed we must make a trade-off 
> between robustness (ext4 vs ext2), convenience (/boot in root filesystem 
> vs small separate /boot) and compatibility with boot loaders. And I 
> believe we can do it right at least for use cases we know about. You 
> addressed the case of guided partitioning without LVM on ppc64el, why 

without -> with ^^^

> not do the same for guided partitioning without LVM ? Do you think that 
> the robustness or convenience gain of not having a separate ext2 /boot 
> partition is worth the loss of compatibility with Petitboot ?

Ok, so I have now changed that, to create a separate ext2 /boot partition
for the non-lvm case as well.


Holger

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