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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 - finally a |
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> date last updated!!! |
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> Having installed and worked with _rc5 and various other distros in the |
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> past few months, I've come across one glitch in the otherwise 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 to |
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> jell, although I still boot from _rc5 from time to time. jblinux is |
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> probably the only distro to offer an XFS file system. Unfortunately |
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> the good folks at grub have never heard of XFS, so lilo is the 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 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 root |
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partition should still be able to be XFS, since it is accessed directly |
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by the kernel. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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