Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932549Ab0BPDSv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:18:51 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:42989 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932434Ab0BPDSu (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:18:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Neil Brown , Michael Evans , Justin Piszcz , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. In-Reply-To: <4B79F3CE.5030907@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <4877c76c1002111752h23e14f7aibe58a89181e6f493@mail.gmail.com> <4B77044B.1020609@zytor.com> <20100216112708.4a863f86@notabene.brown> <4B79F3CE.5030907@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 24 On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 02/15/2010 04:27 PM, Neil Brown wrote: > > There are three options: > > a) either don't boot from it (separate /boot); > b) use a bootloader which installs in the MBR and > hopefully-unpartitioned disk areas (e.g. Grub); > c) use a nonstandard custom MBR. > > Neither (b) or (c), of course, allow for chainloading from another OS > install and thus are bad for interoperability. I have had no problems with XFS partitions and lilo as the bootloader. I've been doing this for a couple of years now without realizing that there is supposed to be a problem. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/