[KLUG Members] lilo and xfs

[Bruce Smith]

> > I tried just now changing boot= from the device to the bootable partition which
> > is XFS, lilo refused to install saying it would trash the file system on the
> > partition. Say what?!
> 
> Last I knew LILO didn't work with XFS.  Even on grub boxes I create a
> 256Mb ext3 /boot partition and store a couple of utilities like ipssend
> there as well.

I have XFS-only (no ext2/3) systems with grub that work fine.

 - BS