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OL9.2 Install with EXT4 Fails to Boot

SteffanClineJul 24 2023

I've been trying to install OL9.2 on a Dell R630. The drives are freshly formatted. I used Rufus on Windows in DD mode to write out the OL9 installer ISO to a thumb drive. In the OL installer UI, I set the locations use to EXT4 rather than XFS. It completed just fine. Upon boot, it fails the same 6x in a row the exact same way every time no matter what I do.

I tried manually entering all the following grub options:

set root=(hd0)
set prefix=(hd0)/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal

That failed with the same fs.c:121:unknown filesystem error.

I wiped the drives and reinstalled OL9.2 a 7th time leaving all the defaults as XFS and it finally worked.

What needs to happen for OL9 to use EXT4?

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