[gentoo-dev] Comments on the new "from source" (build) CD Installation page

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

Congratulations on a fine document.  I like the new style - finally a
date last updated!!!

Having installed and worked with _rc5 and various other distros in the
past few months, I've come across one glitch in the otherwise letter
perfect installation process - the grub vs. lilo issue.

I (and perhaps others in your audience) have a multi-boot machine. 
I'm currently running from a jblinux distro while waiting for _rc6 to
jell, although I still boot from _rc5 from time to time.  jblinux is
probably the only distro to offer an XFS file system.  Unfortunately
the good folks at grub have never heard of XFS, so lilo is the only
way to boot from an XFS partition.  You should offer lilo as an
alternative, or at least warn people that it may not be a good thing
to write grub to their mbr, if they have other bootable distros to
worry about.

The thing I like most about lilo is that a simple change to
boot=/dev/fd0 will create a boot floppy so that you don't have to
worry about messing with your normal boot setup until you know the new
_rc6 system is stable.  It's more complicated, but doable, to create a
grub boot floppy, but that would also be an alternative.

Just my $.02.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera