jlreich
06-07-2010, 12:32 PM
Wanted to give a heads up for Linux users out there.
Grub2 and ext4 file system are now the default boot loader and file system for Ubuntu. Not sure how many other distros have or are soon doing the same.
Grub2 - to see the boot menu you need to hold the "left shift key" during boot. There are many other changes to Grub2 but I have not looked into them yet.
ext4 file system - this updated file system is supposed to have several advantages over ext3. I don't have a list for you yet but Google has announced it is moving its storage infrastructure from ext2 to ext4 back in January. EDIT - here is more on ext4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) if you like to learn more.
There is one issue I ran into installing Ultimate Edition 2.7 (Ubuntu 10.04) over the last few days.
As many of you know I use BootIt NG as my boot manager. Well it doesn't recognize ext4. So when I setup the boot menu item for Ubuntu and tried to boot it said it was not a bootable partition. :eek: To make a long story short -
Choose to partition manually, setup a 150MB ext3 "/boot" partition (tried 50MB at first, but it said it had to be a minimum of 116MB), went into advanced and choose to install the boot loader to that partition. Partitioned the rest of the drive and formatted as ext4 for / (root).
So now BiNG can boot it and I still get to use ext4 file system for the main partition. :)
Hopefully they will update BiNG to support ext4 soon, but until then this worked well for me.
Grub2 and ext4 file system are now the default boot loader and file system for Ubuntu. Not sure how many other distros have or are soon doing the same.
Grub2 - to see the boot menu you need to hold the "left shift key" during boot. There are many other changes to Grub2 but I have not looked into them yet.
ext4 file system - this updated file system is supposed to have several advantages over ext3. I don't have a list for you yet but Google has announced it is moving its storage infrastructure from ext2 to ext4 back in January. EDIT - here is more on ext4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) if you like to learn more.
There is one issue I ran into installing Ultimate Edition 2.7 (Ubuntu 10.04) over the last few days.
As many of you know I use BootIt NG as my boot manager. Well it doesn't recognize ext4. So when I setup the boot menu item for Ubuntu and tried to boot it said it was not a bootable partition. :eek: To make a long story short -
Choose to partition manually, setup a 150MB ext3 "/boot" partition (tried 50MB at first, but it said it had to be a minimum of 116MB), went into advanced and choose to install the boot loader to that partition. Partitioned the rest of the drive and formatted as ext4 for / (root).
So now BiNG can boot it and I still get to use ext4 file system for the main partition. :)
Hopefully they will update BiNG to support ext4 soon, but until then this worked well for me.