On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:33:23PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Joerg Johannes (on Sun, 01 Jul 2001 02:32:55PM +0200): > > Good idea, but would need rescue disc wiht xfs-enabled kernel for it, so > > this one must do it > > huh? assuming that you are going to leave your linux partitions alone, > you need a debian rescue disk, you mount your previous linux > installation rooted at /mnt, then you run a chroot'd lilo, which will > use the lilo.conf and kernel of your previous installation to write to > the boot record configured in (/mnt)/etc/lilo.conf.
You are arguing why having root filesystem on $my_pet_fancy_filesystem is generally a bad idea. I agree with you, but it was not the original topic of discussion. :-) Cheers, Joost