Re: LI at boot after making \boot reiserfs
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 07:33:22PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> > >>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> >
> > Ethan> LILO is not compatible with reiserfs, either make /boot
> > Ethan> ext2 again or use GNU grub instead.
>[snip]
> > I am a bit confused - why is lilo incompatible with reiserfs? I thought
> > all lilo did was mark a list of blocks where the kernel resides,
> > and that this should work regardless of file system...
[snip]
I don't doubt that LILO is incompatible with reiserfs, but I can't
find anything in the LILO 21-4 Manual that suggest that LILO isn't
compatible with any specific file system.
Would someone please give me a reference on the reiserfs? That is a
new fs on me. What advantage does it have over e2fs?
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
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