Sounder 8 installation notes

[John]

James Gregory wrote:

>When it came time to install a boot-loader I told it to put it on
>/dev/hdg1 (the root partition from my install) partly because I figured
>that would be the least disruption, but also because I wasn't sure which
>drives hd0, hd1 would refer to (there are two other hard drives in the
>machine, hda and hdc IIRC. They are not currently used, but I don't
>recall seeing them in the partitioner so I ultimately didn't know where
>the drive numbering started from). It then proclaimed that it was
>running "grub-install /dev/hdg1". I let it sit there for quite a while.
>Asked about this on #ubuntu whilst waiting and was told to kill the grub
>process. Did so and it finished installing grub.
>
>After it rebooted, my machine went back to the Fedora boot process that
>was previously setup. I addded a lilo entry there to boot from
>/dev/hdg1.  Curiously, when I chose that option it booted me into
>windows XP (the other, other operating system on this box). I thought
>that perhaps the drive letters had been swapped for some reason but
>booting into the 'windows' option from outer-lilo also booted me to
>winxp. I then booted Fedora again and tried to mount /dev/hdg1. No go.
>Lessing both /dev/hde1 and /dev/hdg1 shows an NT boot loader on hde1 and
>GRUB on hdg1. I have the sinking suspicion at this point that installing
>GRUB has destroyed the XFS partition.
>
>Said suspicion was later confirmed by the illustrious Jamie Wilkinson.
>It would probably be helpful for the installer to have a big whinge if
>you try to install GRUB onto a partition you asked it to format in the
>partitioning stage. Especially since Windows operates just fine with a
>boot loader on the same partition as the OS itself.
>  
>

This should work. I wouldn't say I do it often, but I have done it 
several times over the years, certainly with lilo. I can't think of an 
instance where I have done it with grub, but it's how I set uop Mandrake 
with LILO on a RHL box some years ago, and right now I I have a box with 
grub in the mbr, lilo in one partition and Darwin's in another.

I have, however, never used reiserfs.

I do know there have been adverse reports of d-i and RAID on Debian lists.