From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,DMARC_NONE, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.33]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15e4Jq-00069j-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2001 18:43:58 -0600 Received: from jbl1.home.com ([24.255.149.198]) by femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010904004343.QCRM29510.femail39.sdc1.sfba.home.com@jbl1.home.com> for ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:43:43 -0700 From: Collins Richey To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Comments on the new "from source" (build) CD Installation page Message-Id: <20010903185533.0d0e36ab.erichey2@home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010903183305.E20781@cvs.gentoo.org> References: <20010903182240.04ae4f16.erichey2@home.com> <20010903183305.E20781@cvs.gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon Sep 3 18:44:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:55:33 +0700 X-Archives-Salt: 2760e244-c29b-42fb-a887-09ee399e1d03 X-Archives-Hash: 26cddd791d2644eea81e46d24160f1ca On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:33:05 -0600 Daniel Robbins 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