I think you hit the nail on the head. By default, it appears that the Mandrake Installer tries to install the Boot Loader in the XFS boot partition instead of on the MBR. Of course this installation fails and will not continue beyond that point. Once I switched the location where the Installer was trying to put LILO to the MBR it worked fine.
Am I making sense? Devin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:00 AM To: Alan Hughes; Devin B. Hedge Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Possible bug - cannot install boot loader on XFS f Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Alan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > DrakX complained saying that boot loaders cannot be installed > > on an XFS partition. > > this is weird. both lilo and grub handle XFS correctly. uh, no, this is normal. I was thinking about *booting* from an XFS partition which works. what does not work is *installing* the bootloader *on* the XFS partition, since XFS doesn't leave an empty room for the bootloader to install itself. so it's not a bug :) PS: i never think about installing bootloaders on the partition instead of the MBR, please say it precisely or at least give the error message verbatim so that i can grep through the code!
