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Re: XFS and grub-0.92

To: Kelledin <kelledin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS and grub-0.92
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 10 Jul 2002 05:06:38 -0500
Cc: Ian Cumming <ian@xxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 02:43, Kelledin wrote:

> I just went through the XFS FAQ again and found something else...particularly 
> concerning LILO.  It has the same problem as grub--it can't be installed on 
> the bootsector of a root partition, because it overwrites the XFS superblock. 
>  This is apparently a limitation of XFS; only reason it worked with lilo is 
> because I had lilo's bootsector residing on floppy.

The issue is that the XFS on disk format is the Irix format which starts
at block zero. Changing the format was not really an option.

Steve




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