Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:18:32 -0800 (PST) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. |
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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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