>
> On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 08:11, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > Just did an install with root on xfs (do not know if it was the
reason
> > of problems). Booting with bootdisk fails - endless dots after
"RAMDISK:
> > Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing" ........
> >
> > I have main lilo on had and install test systems on hda1 (with lilo
on
> > hda1) and boot via chain loader. Failed here as well - after "test
boot"
> > (test is the name of lilo entry) it hangs. Does lilo support xfs?
>
> Lilo works fine with XFS with the one excretion that it must be
> installed in the mbr /dev/hda in your case.
>
> XFS has it's super block at at block 0 unlike the other linux fs's
that
> start at block 64 (I think... don't quote me on that one) so putting
> lilo on any partition with an XFS file system is a no no.
>
Good, that explains why I cannot boot using chain loader, but it does
not explain why boot with boot floppy fails :-)
-andrej
