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Re: XFS latest changes, sb corruption?

To: Ethan Benson <erbenson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS latest changes, sb corruption?
From: Paul Blazejowski <paulb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 25 Mar 2002 09:57:16 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 03:34, Ethan Benson wrote: 
 
> you are wrong.  XFS has never left space for lilo (or any bootblock),
> its been that way long before it ever was ported to Linux.  but feel
> free to try, just be ready for another ruined superblock.

I'm wrong on many things and i must agree because Eric pointed this out
too...i knew about it from reading FAQ before.

> the only explanation is your configuration was not what you thought it
> was.

That's what i think it was and it worked as i was booting using floppy
disk that would load part of teh loader and /dev/sda2 would load the
kernel image... 

> i don't use lilo anymore so im not that interested in doing the work,
> but like i said its really only a matter of 2 or 3 lines of code.

I'll try write the author and ask, if he could modify lilo...

Thanks,

Paul
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