  Re: [linux-lvm] LVM     according to reiserfs's FAQ:  you need
the notail option on the /boot partition. the fstab might look
as follows: /dev/hda1    /boot   reiserfs    defaults,notail  0
0 /dev/hda2    /   reiserfs    defaults  0 0  if there isn't the
word "notail" in the fourth column of your root fstab entry,
then you ARE booting with tails.  according the lilo changelog:
lilo has been able to boot from a reiserfs partition with tail
support since version 21.6 (Oct. 1, 2000)  *under an rpm-based
distro such as redhat or mandrake, "rpm -qi lilo" should give
you the version. (assuming you haven't downloaded lilo as a
tarball and compiled it.)  Both were last modified in August
2001, I don't know which to believe. For safety sake, I made my
/boot ext2. Most recent computers (within the past two years)
can boot from a partition after the 1024 boundary. I just like
to make a separate /boot at the beginning of the drive as a  as
for the matter of initrd's, this is the way that I understand
it: in a non-lvm