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

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 06:22:40PM +0700, Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.

As long as the *boot* partition isn't XFS, all should go well.  The root
partition should still be able to be XFS, since it is accessed directly
by the kernel.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.