[CentOS] Hardware freezes on Dell Optiplex 320whilebooting(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204)

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Ross Walker
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 18:22
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Cc: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Hardware freezes on Dell Optiplex 
> 320whilebooting(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204)
> 
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:31 PM, "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron at pdinc.us> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a yum way of installing lilo? Will it work with 
> the devicemapper?
> > (assumption is no)
> 
> As long a LILO can boot the kernel off /boot and /boot is a 
> Linux or MDRAID partition all the device-mapper related stuff 
> will be done within the initrd.
> 
> As far as mirrored /boot is concerned, if LILO is set to look 
> in that partition and it's file system is ext2/3 it can grab 
> the kernel file. It's read-only during boot and the mdraid 
> meta-data is kept at the end of the partition, so it should 
> look and behave as a normal ext file system.

My /boot is just a plain jane ext3, first problem overted...

Thanks

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