Re: XFS and grub-0.92

[Bo Johansson <bjont97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:43:11AM -0500, 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.

If you want to have a separate bootsector you can install it on
your swap-partition. I have been booting from swap for quite some
time and it doesn't get overwritten.

Regards Bosse

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