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.
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