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On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:33:05 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:22:40PM +0700, Collins Richey wrote: |
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> > Congratulations on a fine document. I like the new style - |
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> finally a |
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> > date last updated!!! |
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> > |
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> > Having installed and worked with _rc5 and various other distros in |
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> the |
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> > past few months, I've come across one glitch in the otherwise |
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> letter |
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> > perfect installation process - the grub vs. lilo issue. |
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> > I (and perhaps others in your audience) have a multi-boot machine. |
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> > I'm currently running from a jblinux distro while waiting for _rc6 |
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> to |
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> > jell, although I still boot from _rc5 from time to time. jblinux |
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> is |
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> > probably the only distro to offer an XFS file system. |
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> Unfortunately |
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> > the good folks at grub have never heard of XFS, so lilo is the |
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> only |
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> > way to boot from an XFS partition. You should offer lilo as an |
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> > alternative, or at least warn people that it may not be a good |
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> thing |
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> > to write grub to their mbr, if they have other bootable distros to |
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> > worry about. |
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> As long as the *boot* partition isn't XFS, all should go well. The |
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> root |
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> partition should still be able to be XFS, since it is accessed |
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> directly |
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> by the kernel. |
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In my case it's both partitions. I'm always concerned when distros |
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cavalierly (IMHO) offer to put a boot loader in the mbr before it's |
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known that this will work. Alas, almost every distro does it this |
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way. At least on the jblinux distro (for example), I was able to |
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choose to write the lilo boot stuff to floppy. |
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I just think it would be worth at least a note in the install |
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document. |
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Collins Richey |
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Denver Area |
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jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera |