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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:41PM +0100, Knut Feiert wrote:

> I have reformatted /boot, mounted -notail, copied the files, and it worked.
> Shouldn't step 2 of the install guide be changed accordingly?

I added the notail options to the install guide, which should resolve the
issue.

> 
> On the other hand is it worthwhile using a journaling 
> file system for a partition which is not mounted 
> most of the time and has a limited number of files?
> Especially for those who do kernel compilation only 
> if they have to and then forgetting about the 
> -notail business?

Yes, it's no big deal to use ext2, but this problem only occurs when GRUB
is not going on your MBR.  For now, the current install instructions should
suffice.  I also added information on how to use loadkeys to restore your
keymap.

Thanks for your help,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.