On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:58, Ethan Benson wrote: > bad plan, the bootloader will be overwritten as soon as swap is > activated, and you will probably end up crashing your system when you > scribble part of the active swap with lilo. > > his only options are put lilo in the MBR, or create a small ext2 > partition to hold lilo (such as /boot). i recommend MBR it will not > cause problems with dual booting, just read the lilo.conf man page. > > lilo should really have a check added to see if the partition its > going to install on has an XFS superblock, as far as linux filesystems > go XFS is unique in that it doesn't have 1K of space left alone at the > start of the partition for bootblocks. should be a trivial 2 or 3 > line change to lilo which would save a few people a lousy day i imagine. That's what i thought about using swap...that the loader would get wiped, not that my swap is used a lot these days (1gig of ram helps). I grabbed latest LILO and put it on MBR (they way i intended to do it long time ago).It works all fine now for both XFS on / and win2k. But teh thing is that it all worked till now,LILO was happy and so was XFS...unless i had done it all wrong.Now i wonder wheater to report this to LILO maintainer and hope it will get fixed/changed? Paul -- _________________________________ ( http://www.linuxdiscussions.org )
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