Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> We are seeing some problems, likely related to 2.4.0.
> When creating an xfs root on an IDE drive with the
> test2 CD the installed kernel (2.4.0+xfs) does not
> get past mounting root. The system keeps spewing
> messages like "hda lost interrupt". The same system
> doesn't have problems with the same drive when running
> the boot kernel based on test11. A further datapoint is
> that if the root is made from ext2 the problem is not seen.
>
> Has anyone successfully installed the test2 CD on an IDE drive?
> I've also seen some reports relating to IDE & interrupts
> on the l-k mailing list, but couldn't really say distill
> any concise workaround for this problem. Does anyone have
> a good handle on what's going on? Please let me know if you
> need additional information.
>
> thanks!
Does XFS work at all on the ide drive with a 2.4.0 kernel?
ie ext2 root but xfs /<some spare partition> ?
BTW I just about have the latest build stuff done.
I hand modified the test11 patch to add in the device perm fix, so the /dev/*
it currently correct after reboot.
I have all but the 686 install rpms built, should be done by morning.
These kernels have devfs turned on by default.
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> Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan ("ananth")
> Member Technical Staff, SGI.
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Linux XFS core developer.
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