Austin Acton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. > > That is not the problem. I just tried it with reiser, and I got the > same error... "filesystem would be destroyed by LILO boot sector > /dev/hda". > > This is very odd. What does it mean?
it seems it found the magic of OS2, SWAP, XFS or NTFS on MBR. if someone can reproduce, please give the MBR (using something like dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/mbr count=2) and the output of "lilo -v7"
