Grub on f2fs for *buntu 17.04

[alexan]

Using grub on f2fs works just about fine on 16.10 with this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs

but this ppa doesn't look maintained anymore and doesn't work on 17.04. There are any alternative?

I saw the old patch is here: https://github.com/frap129/grub-f2fs/

but I see no instruction on how to apply+compile :/

[alexan]

still looking for this :)

[alexan]

Still looking for possible way to solve this.

[LostFarmer]

https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs posted by you, leads to https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2 . that says that the current updated grub in 17.04 that can be updated does have the patch included. no time to post much

[alexan]

@LostFarmer: No, it doesn't. The current update grub doesn't have that patch.


moving onward (also for those who may run in same issue throug google search), I was able to download the ppa packages with this:


wget https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs/+build/12116824/+files/grub-common_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2~depaulicious~f2fs1_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs/+build/12116824/+files/grub-pc_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2~depaulicious~f2fs1_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs/+build/12116824/+files/grub-pc-bin_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2~depaulicious~f2fs1_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs/+build/12116824/+files/grub2_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2~depaulicious~f2fs1_amd64.deb
wget https://launchpad.net/~depaulicious/+archive/ubuntu/grub2-f2fs/+build/12116824/+files/grub2-common_2.02~beta3-4ubuntu2~depaulicious~f2fs1_amd64.deb


...and force the install with sudo dpkg -i *.deb. The (64bit) system with these packages is now able to boot grub from f2fs.

Then, to migrate the system, I do use "cp -a" and chroot to set up everything up: but still seems not work yet; I am yet trying to figure to correct procedure to have grub to boot ubuntu run from, and on, a f2fs partition. I'll post here whenever I'll finally find a solution.