Chapter 7 of the guide (Mount Partitions). At the end of this chapter, there are 2 'important' notes written. The first sounds like this 'If your boot partition is ReiserFS, be sure to mount it with the -o notail option so GRUB gets properly installed.'. This made me wonder what I had to do if I wanted to use LILO. Do I need the -o notail option as well? Making this clear in the document would be appriciated by people I think. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: The sentence should contain an extra sentence or so, like 'In case you're using LILO you don't have to use the -o notail option since .... (short explanation)'. I'm not sure, but it can be that -o notail is required by lilo as well, just like grub. Couldn't find it 1.2.3. on the web. But I assume you got my point by now.
ok.. are you using lilo? if then, how did you mount the boot partition at that point? and how did it go?
I think the issue is not that grub do not get installed at all. 'notail' just improve performance for reiserfs filesystems ....
Actually, just browsed the lilo and grub info/man pages. ---------------------- lilo man page -------------------- lilo is known to have problems with the reiserfs introduced with the 2.2.x kernels, unless the file system is mounted with the 'notail' option. This incompatibilty has been resolved with reiserfs 3.6.18 and lilo 21.6. --------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- grub info page ------------------ 31 : File is not sector aligned This error may occur only when you access a ReiserFS partition by block-lists (e.g. the command `install'). In this case, you should mount the partition with the `-o notail' option. --------------------------------------------------------- Thus I guess just add lilo to the list to be safe, even though it looks like lilo should be fine with newer kernels.
Fixed on cvs in gentoo-x86-install.xml (04 Apr 2003 edition)
