On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:22 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > This feature is orthogonal to grub's first stage loader residing on > XFS. > > ext2/3 leave 4KB of empty space before the filesystem actually starts. > That makes it possible to share the partition between the boot loader > and the filesystem. XFS, however, does not leave empty space at the > beginning so you can't put grub/lilo on that.
Ah, ok, so that explains how I was able to have an XFS / on several machines. I put Grub in the MBR, not the boot block of the partition. I was not aware that XFS does not leave space for a boot loader! Good thing it Just Worked with Grub in the MBR. -- Karl Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]