[KLUG Members] Re: Laptop reiser corruption and fixing it

[Bryan J. Smith]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I also highly recommend GRUB over LILO because you can do so much
> more at the command line (like boot a partition not in the config)
> and look inside a filesystem before you boot.  That's saved my a$$
> a few times recently.

I have been meaning to learn GRUB.  Got a good reference?

I've avoided GRUB because it lacks an XFS driver.  But supposedly
someone has written one.  It doesn't really matter either way
because I use Ext2 for /.

> Want to have some fun?  Remove the /initrd directory on a SCSI
> system (or any system where you use an initial ram disk) when
> you're cleaning up, and you'll get a message that the init
> program cannot be loaded, and try passing the kernel a "init="
> parameter (which doesn't help).  That one took me some time to
> track down!!!

I have no issues with initrds and LILO.  I use them liberally to
pre-load drivers, so I don't need to compile a custom kernel (a
waste of time IMHO ;-).  I also use it to do other things -- e.g.,
to force the SCSI assigns when I have multiple SCSI disks, when
/etc/modules.conf isn't doing the job.

-- Bryan

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