Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

["Nikanth Karthikesan" <KNikanth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> > > On 8/20/2010 at 06:53 PM, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> On 08/20/2010 12:26 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: 
> > Carlos E. R. wrote: 
> > > On 2010-08-20 06:16, Linda Walsh wrote: 
> > > > Stefan Seyfried wrote: 
> > > > > Besides, you cannot install a boot record onto XFS, so you always 
> > > > > need a 
> > > > > second partition 
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> > > >     Some have had this problem. 
> > > >     I have never had this issue.  My root (and boot) partition are xfs. 
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> > > It is a documented and known problem. 
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> >     Yes -- a documented problem in Grub.  Not in XFS. 
> > SuSE maintainers thought GRUB was more important than the ability to use 
> > 1 file system for all your file systems. 
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> >     Personally, I disagree, since it is GRUB that is doing things, that 
> > were documented as being problematic, since before GRUB was even conceived. 
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> Personally I don't miss the days of forgetting to run lilo after every 
> kernel update and being greeted with LILILILILILI or whatever it was. 
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But as long as one runs lilo...

> Lilo should be taken out back and shot. This is even more true as more 
> file systems are developed that lilo can't possibly ever work with, like 
> btrfs. 
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I thought LILO is file-system agnostic?

And LILO is the only possible way to use a brand-new file-system, whenever
a new file-system comes out, till GRUB learns the format?!

Thanks
Nikanth

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