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| From | Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Can LILO do this too? |
| Date | 2012-05-20 18:57 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <jpberc$vrs$1@speranza.aioe.org> (permalink) |
| References | <jp8ad8$eb4$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2012-05-19, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
> Since grub has got the various FS-drivers: ext2, ext3, js*,
> one can understand that it couldn't read an ext3 if the
> driver was missing; but aren't ALL ext2 equal, independant
> of the kernel-version that created them?
> What about different inode sizes, can grub handle all?
I don't know about your ext2 question, n.t.p., but it may be analogous
to how Slackware changed how it creates an ext3 filesystem during
installation. I believe they changed the inode size, but I don't
recall; it was in the changelog. They said it was in preparation for
using ext4, when it was new. When I installed Slackware 13.0, and
formatted my root partition in ext3, legacy grub could no longer
recognize the filesystem, so I had to install lilo in Slackware's root
partition and modify my menu.lst to just chainload Slackware. So it's
possible that an ext2 partition with a "non-standard" inode size would
confound legacy grub.
--
Chick Tower
For e-mail: colm DOT sent DOT towerboy AT xoxy DOT net
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Can LILO do this too? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 11:17 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 12:31 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 17:41 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 14:36 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 18:58 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 15:39 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2012-05-19 13:59 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 14:59 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 17:27 -0500
Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-20 18:57 +0000
Re: Can LILO do this too? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-05-20 18:50 -0400
Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-21 21:53 +0000
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