<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Grub 1 (the default in Voyage) <a href="https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Booting_from_an_ext4_filesystem">does not supporting booting to an ext4 filesystem</a>. (There are some efforts to support that, but I don't think those patches are present in the current Voyage grub1.)<div><br></div><div>You can install a recent grub2, or make a separate ext2/3 formatted /boot partition.</div><div><br></div><div>Joshua</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 13, 2012, at 5:51 AM, <a href="mailto:kmpirkos@ece.upatras.gr">kmpirkos@ece.upatras.gr</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thank you for your prompt reply. Using only one partition solved the problem. The OS loads nicely.<br>However, is it possible to use a journaling file system like ext4 instead of ext2?<br>I tried altering format-cf.sh and use mkfs.ext4 instead of mkfs.ext2 and again, the grub> command prompt appears.<br><br>The reason I prefer ext4 is to avoid inode reference problems after sudden power-offs. Do you think that ext2 along with the read-only mounting is enough? If so, after I shrink the main ext2 partition, can I make an ext4 partition in the remaining space? I need read-write access to the second partition.<br><br>Regards,<br>Kostas Birkos<br><br><br><br>Arun Khan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:25 PM, <<a href="mailto:kmpirkos@ece.upatras.gr">kmpirkos@ece.upatras.gr</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I have a problem while trying to install Voyage 0.9 in a CF card.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Using GParted in Ubuntu 12.04, I created 2 primary partitions in the CF.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2 GB for the OS and another 6 GB for storage. During the installation<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">process, I select the first partition to install Voyage.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Rather than pre-partition the CF hard disk, let the VL installer<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">choose the *entire* CF disk for the first partition.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">After completing the installation, you can shrink the first partition<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to your desired size and free up the rest.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Also update the grub installation on the CF card.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Let us know if this solves your problem.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- Arun Khan<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Voyage-linux mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk">Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux">http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Voyage-linux mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk">Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk</a><br>http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>