Adam Warner wrote:
>
> Hi Eric and the SGI XFS Mailing List,
> And strangely the boot disk did nothing except turn the boot process over to
> the HD MBR :-(
*snip*
> The boot disk contains:
> initrd.img
> lost+found
> vmlinuz-2.4.0-SGI_XFS_PR
*snip*
Unfortunately, the kernel & initrd are probably too big for a floppy.
You can take a look at it on another machine, but my guess is it's 100%
full. We should probably add a caveat for this, or even disable the
boot floppy creation for now...
You can still use the CD you burned as a rescue disc, just type "linux
rescue" at the boot: prompt and you'll be in single user mode. You can
then mount up your partitions and try re-configuring lilo.
You will probably need to create your own devices - take a look in /tmp
and see what's there.
> 1. Liked the SGI colour scheme and installer :-)
Thanks. :)
> 2. Your time zone selection missed out "Pacific Rim". It was still possible
> to select Auckland (New Zealand) from the World Map.
That's actually one for Red Hat, I guess - did you have this choice in
their standard 7.0 installer?
> 3. No ability to select 32 bit display modes for my 3dfx Voodoo3 3000.
>
> 4. On the first install I tested the screen resolution. Even though I was
> able to see the message that the display mode was OK and click on it, the
> installer display was then corrupted and I had to hard reset and start again
> (BTW I chose 1152x854, 24 bit).
Yes, the X configuration is known to be buggy... the same thing happened
on my laptop.
This is a snapshot of Red Hat's anaconda, so there are all sorts of bugs
waiting to be discovered...
-Eric
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