On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:17, Collins Richey orated thus:
The statement mount /dev/hdx; I am lost here as thats the whole
HD and not the partition also its not mounted in /mnt/xxx its
/dev/hda7 and /boot. So what is the required statement, for me to
change /boot to reiserfs as all the rest
On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:26 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:17, Collins Richey orated thus:
The statement mount /dev/hdx; I am lost here as thats the
whole HD and not the partition also its not mounted in
/mnt/xxx its /dev/hda7 and /boot. So what is the required
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On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:26 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
Errm, forgot to say I do not use lilo, intensely dislike it, I
use GRUB. |;-0
In general, I too like grub, but many distros don't offer it
1) It's still alpha/beta status
2) It doesn't support all partition types (jfs, xfs)
On Saturday 25 August 2001 09:47 pm, Collins Richey wrote:
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On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:14 pm, burns wrote:
I have found resiersfs to be problematic, generally, and
especially for /boot. Personally, I would only recommend it for
data partitions. YMMV
Obviously, my mileage is
On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:17 am, David Aikema wrote:
I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a
system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI
(suggesting a corrupt kernel IIRC) though. Do I need to preserve
/boot as ext2 here or would it be some other
On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:36 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:20, Collins Richey orated thus:
I don't know whether this is your problem or not; the following
is required for using a reiserfs /boot with grub. The /boot
partition should have been mounted with -o notail; if
