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Re: XFS 1.0 RH7.1 won't boot

To: Simon Pabst <simon.pabst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS 1.0 RH7.1 won't boot
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 06:35:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <006901c0d2f2$b00fd4c0$0a42a8c0@chimaera>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
That could be a problem. <G>

FWIW, just to be safe, when I install, I create a small partition for
/boot (10-15MB should be more than enough) at the beginning of my HD, to
keep LILO and all the boot info inside the 1024 cylinder mark.

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Simon Pabst wrote:

> No, I skipped LILO installation because the RH-installer
> suggested it - I suppose Redhat still uses a LILO that
> has problems with partitions beyond 1024 cylinder?
> I am new to Redhat - I use SuSE on my other pc's, so
> I am not sure.
> But I have created several bootdisks, and none of them
> can boot my partition, so I don't think it's a floppy problem
> Looks like I got to do it the hard way - install RH7.1 with ext2,
> which works without problems, and change to
> a XFS root later on.
>
> thanks
> - Simon
>
> > Does the system boot without the boot disk, ie, via the HD?
> >
> > If so, recreate your boot disk by running "mkbootdisk" as root.
> >
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Simon Pabst wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, but this doesn't solve anything -
> > > I don't think this is APIC-related.
> > > It's NOT the boot.img bootdisk to start the installation
> > > that locks up, it's after using the installer-created bootdisk
> > > (instead of LILO) to boot the installed system.
> > >
> > > - Simon
> > >
> > > > "Russell Cattelan wrote:"
> > > > > The boot images has APIC enabled to solve a problem with the SGI
> 1200's
> > > > > apparently enabling this does break on some motherboards.
> > > >
> > > > boot with "noapic" as one of the boot parameters.
> > > >
> > > > > One option is to download the Release-1.0-test3 iso image.... err
> > > > > scratch that download the bootnet.img from the test3 dir.
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>


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