[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.09-pre2: release candidate

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Thu Jun 16 14:32:17 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 14:22 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Hm.  I have at least one box on which it (extlinux, in particular) still 
> doesn't work; it unfortunately happens to be the machine on which 
> zytor.com is hosted; worse, it doesn't work correctly with either GRUB 
> (standard RAID1-being-braindead crap)

You might want to look at the grub (and grub-install in particular) in
FC4.  It handles RAID1 /boot now (and RAID1 / if you've got no /boot),
but only if you're writing the boot sector to the MBRs of the disks (as
opposed to the partitions).

> even if I try to install a newer version of LILO instead of the
> prehistoric one RedHat insists on shipping...)

Have no fear, we've stopped shipping the prehistoric version.

-- 
        Peter




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