Quoting Didier Kryn ([email protected]): > Long ago I would use Ext2 as the root partition, when Grub-0.9 > didn't know of Reiserfs.
Thank you very much for clarifying about the raidtools >0.9 metadata issue, by the way. I really hadn't seen and understood that. Anyway, as you and Simon Hobson suggest, I was long in the habit of having separate /boot (in those days, because of the 1024-cylinder limit), and certainly might do so again. Back then, I had that as ext2, and with the filesystem normally unmounted. > Of course this scheme is certainly also usable with LILO, but > then why not use Grub-legacy? Well, some of us just actually preferred lilo. I honestly never saw the advantage of grub 0.9x. 'It can parse a large list of filesystems.' Er, how about using a bootloader that doesn't _need_ to parse the filesystems because it notes down disk locations? 'It has a shell.' Er, how about using a bootloader where you don't _need_ a shell because you include a safety fallback boot configuration you can always invoke to enter the system and recover from errors? It's fine that people love grub 0.9x, of course, but many of us just never found its alleged advantages even to be advantages, let alone compelling. (Of course, there are things lilo cannot address, and never will, starting with f*cking UEFI. ;-> ) -- Cheers, "We reject: kings, presidents and voting. Rick Moen We believe in: rough consensus and running code." [email protected] -- Dave Clark, IETF (unofficial motto) McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
