> [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >>>This is a big bummer and the waste of a morning... >>> >>>I bought a fancy new machine (one of those E-Cube mini sytems... it's >>> very neat, and glows BLUE!). I installed my freshly downloaded >>>powerpack, with XFS root and XFS home. >> >> >> If you are going to use an XFS root, you need a /boot which is not >> XFS. This has something to do with the compatablity SGI wants to keep >> with the on-disk format used by Irix XFS, which is incompatible with >> what LILO wants to put there on any partition containing a kernel you >> want to boot. >> >> I was under the impression drakx warned you about this. > > Well, my 9.1 system is completely xfs and lilo here has no problem in > installing the bootloader on the mbr. Don't tell me that the lilo that > comes with 9.2 cannot do that, it'd mean I cannot upgrade.
OK, well, I wasn't absolutely sure about the MBR, but it *should* work on the MBR according to: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#lilowork I am not sure why Austin's installation of LILO on the MBR failed. You should be ok ... I think ;-). Regards, Buchan
