Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 25 August 2001 09:47 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > [ snips ] > > On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:14 pm, burns wrote: > > I have found resiersfs to be problematic, generally, and > > especially for /boot. Personally, I would only recommend it for > > data partitions. YMMV > > Obviously, my mi

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread burns
On August 25, 2001 09:47 pm, Collins Richey wrote: > [ snips ] > > On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:14 pm, burns wrote: > > I have found resiersfs to be problematic, generally, and > > especially for /boot. Personally, I would only recommend it for > > data partitions. YMMV > > Obviously, my mileage is

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread Collins Richey
[ snip ] On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:26 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: > Errm, forgot to say I do not use lilo, intensely dislike it, I > use GRUB. <|;-0 In general, I too like grub, but many distros don't offer it 1) It's still alpha/beta status 2) It doesn't support all partition types (jfs, xfs)

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread Collins Richey
On Sunday 26 August 2001 03:26 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:17, Collins Richey orated thus: > > > The statement "mount /dev/hdx"; I am lost here as thats the > > > whole HD and not the partition also its not mounted in > > > /mnt/xxx its /dev/hda7 and /boot. So what is the req

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread burns
> On August 25, 2001 05:20 am, Collins Richey wrote: > > On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:17 am, David Aikema wrote: > > > I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a > > > system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI > > >

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-26 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 00:17, Collins Richey orated thus: > > The statement "mount /dev/hdx"; I am lost here as thats the whole > > HD and not the partition also its not mounted in /mnt/xxx its > > /dev/hda7 and /boot. So what is the required statement, for me to > > change /boot to reiserfs as all

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-25 Thread Collins Richey
On Sunday 26 August 2001 08:36 am, Keith Antoine wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:20, Collins Richey orated thus: > > I don't know whether this is your problem or not; the following > > is required for using a reiserfs /boot with grub. The /boot > > partition should have been mounted with -o notai

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-25 Thread David Aikema
On August 25, 2001 05:20 am, Collins Richey wrote: > On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:17 am, David Aikema wrote: > > I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a > > system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI > > (suggesting a corrupt

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-25 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:20, Collins Richey orated thus: > I don't know whether this is your problem or not; the following is > required for using a reiserfs /boot with grub. The /boot partition > should have been mounted with -o notail; if not, the structure of > the files and journal records are

Re: Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-25 Thread Collins Richey
On Sunday 26 August 2001 07:17 am, David Aikema wrote: > I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a > system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI > (suggesting a corrupt kernel IIRC) though. Do I need to preserve > /boot as ext2 here or

Lilo freezes at LI

2001-08-25 Thread David Aikema
I've tried installing slackware 8.0 using only reiserfs on a system here. When I try to bootup the system lilo freezes at LI (suggesting a corrupt kernel IIRC) though. Do I need to preserve /boot as ext2 here or would it be some other sort of problem that I'm having? The syst