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

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:33:05 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> 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.
> 

In my case it's both partitions.  I'm always concerned when distros
cavalierly (IMHO) offer to put a boot loader in the mbr before it's
known that this will work.  Alas, almost every distro does it this
way.  At least on the jblinux distro (for example), I was able to
choose to write the lilo boot stuff to floppy.  

I just think it would be worth at least a note in the install
document.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver Area
jblinux 2.2 xfce sylpheed opera