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SubjectRe: Linux mdadm superblock question.
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 02/15/2010 04:27 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> There are three options:
>
> a) either don't boot from it (separate /boot);
> b) use a bootloader which installs in the MBR and
> hopefully-unpartitioned disk areas (e.g. Grub);
> c) use a nonstandard custom MBR.
>
> Neither (b) or (c), of course, allow for chainloading from another OS
> install and thus are bad for interoperability.

I have had no problems with XFS partitions and lilo as the bootloader.
I've been doing this for a couple of years now without realizing that
there is supposed to be a problem.

David Lang


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