extlinux: /boot on ext4, rootfs on btrfs

[Chris Murphy]

On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Gene Czarcinski <gczarcinski at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033764
> 
> Can someone tell me if I should be able to create a system using the extlinux bootloader with /boot on a regular partition formated ext4 and the rootfs ("/") on a btrfs subvol?
> 
> This is no show stopper if it should work, but it does not work.

It should work, I suspect rootflags= is missing from the kernel param line in extlinux.conf as it's the kernel's job to mount btrfs rootfs, not the bootloader. This might be freezeexception worthy.

Chris Murphy