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[svetljo]

Mandrake 8 use lilo 21.7 - it should be working

Andreas Dilger wrote:

>On Sep 12, 2001  15:41 -0700, IT3 Stuart B. Tener, USNR-R wrote:
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>>	I am curious what version of lilo in fact supports ReiserFS tails. I am running Mandrake 8.0, and using the lilo supplied therewith, and have been booting a / partition as ReiserFS (with tails I believe, how do I check?).
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>At least version 21.6+ support reiserfs tails (maybe earlier, I don't know).
>You should be able to verify with "strings /sbin/lilo | grep -i reiserfs".
>What it does is unpack the tail on any kernel/initrd files so that LILO
>can map the blocks directly.  In a way, it is strange that this is needed,
>since I thought tails only applied to files < 64kB or similar...
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>Cheers, Andreas
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