This may not apply to you, but in addition to the problems with XFS as /, there
are know problems with 2.3.x kernels on Abit motherboards with Maxtor drives.
Have you tried running a 2.3.x kernel prior to this without XFS in it?
-Kip
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Kip Macy kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
University of California, Berkeley
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Root partition support is not there yet, and XFS is not really stable
> enough to be a root (or /usr) filesystem yet.
>
> Thanks for trying though!
>
> Steve Lord
>
> > Hi, I am new to the list. I have just install the linux-XFS and created
> > a 4GB partition
> > for XFS. I have some problems that I would like to report.
> > (BTW - my system is a BP6 with dual celeron 366, 128MB RAM, a 20GB
> > Maxtor on
> > the ATA66 channel.)
> > 1) My first try was to include all options for XFS - which include the
> > META option.
> > This cause a hard hang on one of the CPU. After reading one of the
> > recent message,
> > I turned that off and was able to copy my 4GB / to the XFS - which
> > originally
> > hanged.
> > 2) While the second try seems to work properly - I was not able to boot
> > the system
> > with the XFS root partition. The boot process hanged before init
> > run. (/boot is
> > a small ext2.) Is this a known problem? And, is there a work around?
> >
> > Other than these, XFS seems to ork - but than again, I did not try out
> > enough yet -
> > haven't decided on how best to load it beside using it as /....
>
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