Re: is it safe to use the 5.0-current boot / mbr on stable?

2002-03-17 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels? If you're talking about /boot/loader, probably not. If you're talking about boot0, probably so. > (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, although > you

is it safe to use the 5.0-current boot / mbr on stable?

2002-03-17 Thread George Michaelson
I'd like to play with 5.0-current on a 4.5-stable box. is it safe to use the 5 boot loader with 4.5 kernels? the shift of the kernel & modules to /boot has me worried that the MBR and other low(ish) level logic might not work well. (I'm guessing that without new bootblocks, I can't play, altho