On Thu, 2001-09-13 at 00:50, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>
> >
> > 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 :-)
I just send another email about this to the list but...
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#xfsfitfloppy
