[Centos] CentOS 4 dual boot

Matt Bottrell mbottrell at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 23:57:07 UTC 2005


It's to be expected.

You could avoid it by getting SELinux working with your copy of RHL9


On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:39:22 -0500, Chris Bryant <list at bryantrv.com> wrote:
> Another quick question-
>         In reading the "official" release notes for EL4, I ran across this-
> 
> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 support for SELinux uses Extended
> > Attributes on ext2/ext3 file systems. This means that, when a file is
> > written to a default-mounted ext2/ext3 file system, an extended
> > attribute will also be written.
> >
> > This will cause problems on systems that dual boot between Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1. The Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux 2.1 kernels do not support extended attributes, and
> > can crash when encountering them.
> 
> Anyone run in to this problem? It kind of quashes my hopes of keeping a
> running RH9 system sharing the /home directory with Centos 4- but what
> the heck.
> 
> --
> Chris Bryant
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