Collins Richey wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Coming into this a little late, since I've been on vacation. I use
> reiserfs for all my partitions on several distros (/ and /boot in my case)
> with no problems. The only problem that I am aware of is using grub (I
> still use Lilo). You must create the files in the /boot partition with
> the partition mounted thus: mount /dev/hdx -o notail /mnt/hdx, or grub
> may not be able to use the partition. This causes reiserfs not to do
> certain packing at the tail of the files which confuses grub. If you have
> this problem, copy /boot/* to some other partition, wipe out the files,
> mount the partition with -o notail, then copy the files back.
>
If this is true (don't know, GRUB is the first thing to go bye-bye on my
installations), then GRUB is majorly broken (gee, what a surprise). You
could always submit a bug report to the GRUB folks, but don't expect
much.
Caldera complained that the LILO folks were unresponsive. While the
GRUB folks may be responsive, their responses have been unacceptable to
me, so I won't use GRUB or contact them again.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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