Igor Izyumin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Friday 18 October 2002 07:27 am, David Walluck wrote:
> > Buchan Milne wrote:
> > > David Walluck wrote:
> > >> 1.) xfs support (with no ext2 /boot parition). I just reported this
> > >> recently, and have reported it ever since xfs support went in versions
> > >> ago.
> > >
> > > The issue isn't where your boot partition is (AFAIK), it's where LILO is
> > > installed to (not necessarily the same thinge). Last time I tried XFS on
> > > root there was a warning.
> >
> > LILO is on the MBR, not the disk partition itself. GRUB doesn't have
> > luck either.
> 
> She was installing Lilo on the partition itself, because she had another 
> bootloader on the MBR.

Ah i didn't understand what this was all about. I forgot about this
pb.

I'm not much used to people installing on partition instead of MBR.

> There definitely should be some sort of a warning if 
> you don't create and ext2/3 partition.

Oh my... It works nicely for anything else than XFS. And even, this
*** ***** **** *** eugenia could have installed it on the swap
partition! (not tested, but AFAIK it should work!)

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