As fas as I know, you'll need the XFS/JFS patch for GRUB, try to see this: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#grubwork
The best way is to have an ext2 partition for /boot, so you can always have GRUB load linux kernel. That way, it will be easier to change your linux root file system to some other file system. san On Fri, 2001-09-07 at 17:34, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > Has anyone tried using GRUB to boot linux with an XFS root partition? I'm > using GRUB from potato. I tried to use it but it can't detect the filesystem. > I'm sure that I've set it correctly - where do I find GRUB that can load an > XFS root partition? > > Paolo Falcone > > __________________________________ > www.edsamail.com > >