Alternative Boot Loaders

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:42:54AM +0100, Matt Darcy wrote:
> Huw Selley wrote:
> > On 2 May 2008, at 16:40, Matt Darcy wrote:
> >> I'm trying to establish the reasoning behind including alternative boot
> >> loaders such as lilo on the ubuntu alternative and server cds ?
> >
> > One that springs to mind is being unable to boot an XFS filesystem 
> > from grub so you have to use lilo.
> 
> That also rings true, but I thought that requirment had been removed 
> with stage 1.5 files being xfs compatible now ?

To the best of my knowledge, the compatibility you mention is simply
that stage 1.5 files don't conflict physically with XFS metadata on
disk. However, this doesn't help the process of ensuring that XFS
actually writes those files out to disk when requested.

Regards,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]