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Re: Boot Failure after installing 1.0.1

To: "Gonyou, Austin" <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Boot Failure after installing 1.0.1
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 22:08:12 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <85063BBE668FD411944400D0B744267A643521@AUSMAIL>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Gonyou, Austin wrote:

> A tech here has 2 hdd's on his system, hda and hdb. hda is full with windows
> 2k, hdb is RH 7.1. All boot partitions are on hdb for linux. No LILO
> installed on hda. When installed with RH 7.1 SGI XFS installer 1.0.1, the
> system will not boot at all from hdb, not even with a floppy. If using no
> XFS, it will boot no problem. What is causing this behaviour? Is it
> something to do with the way XFS needs to find it's boot device? Thanks for
> the help. 

You can not install lilo on a XFS partition. It's in the FAQ.
> 
> -- 
> Austin Gonyou
> Systems Architect, CCNA
> Coremetrics, Inc.
> Phone: 512-796-9023
> email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> 
> 


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