Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> Since LILO is included in RedHat 7.2 as well as GRUB, why doesn't the
> XFS installer just install LILO instead?
It could, if we don't get grub figured out.
> > * Installer will let you put the bootloader on the first sector
> > of a partition - don't do this, only use the MBR.
>
> Is this because of GRUB or XFS? I understand that XFS cannot boot this
> way, but some of us still use Ext2 for our / (root) partition (with no
> separate /boot) and XFS for everything else.
It's because XFS puts filesystem data there.
Yep, I should have been more clear - don't put the bootloader on the
first sector of an _XFS_ partition.
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
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