Re: XFS latest changes, sb corruption?

[Vincent Janelle <random@carnagecopia.com>]

Actually, you can install lilo/grub/etc onto your MBR, and tell it to 
boot /dev/sda1 (assuming that is where windows is installed). I've been 
doing this for the last 4 years =)

NTLDR isn't actually installed on the MBR of the drive.

Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> On Sunday 24 March 2002 10:36 am, you wrote:
>
>>Oh wait, I probably know what this is.
>>
>>Are you trying to install lilo on your boot partition?
>>
>>(i.e. "boot = /dev/sda2" in lilo.conf)
>>
>>You need to use the mbr (boot = /dev/sda, or whatever disk boots)
>>(or you could install it on your swap partition, or other non-xfs
>>partition).  XFS needs block 0 on the disk, but if you try to install lilo
>>there it will overwrite xfs fs structures.
>>
>>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#lilowork
>
> Yes, my LILO resides on /dev/sda2 which is the root partition with XFS 
> filesystem.And i've been doing that for past 2 years or so without any 
> problems.My MBR has NTLOADER and to avoid conflicts with it, i  choose to use 
> lilo on my / partition.