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Bug 19337 - caveats about using reiserfs and silo
Summary: caveats about using reiserfs and silo
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Gentoo Linux Sparc Installation Guide (show other bugs)
Hardware: Sparc Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Joe Kallar (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-04-14 20:57 UTC by Rob Kroeger
Modified: 2003-06-12 13:35 UTC (History)
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Description Rob Kroeger 2003-04-14 20:57:42 UTC 
It would be nice if the Sparc install manual mentioned that silo-1.2.6 is 
incapable of loading second stage boot information from a partition created
with reiserfs.  In particular, /boot should be ext2.  Because silo can't
read from a reiserfs partition, /etc/silo.conf must be copied to /boot.

Also, at least on my system, formating /dev/hda1 with reiserfs seemed to trash
the disk label.  (Though perhaps I did something else stupid.) Consequently, I 
suggest that conservative installs put /boot on /dev/hda1 


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Comment 1 Jack Morgan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-17 10:35:12 UTC 
Will add a note to install guide
Thanks
Comment 2 Jack Morgan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-20 12:10:25 UTC 
reassigning to the sparc document dev
Comment 3 Joe Kallar (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-06-12 13:35:29 UTC 
Addressed in 1.4 install doc.