>
> I tried installing Red Hat 7.1+XFS on a bare Compaq server, and when it was
> all over, I got nothing that functioned.
Ugh, I have to leave installer problems to Eric he has helped a number of
people through things like this. Do you know if a vanilla 7.1 install works
on this hardware setup?
>
> The machine:
> ProLiant 6400 (4x PII Xeon 450 w. 2MB cache)
> 4GB RAM
> SmartArray 3200 array controller (raid 5)
> Voodoo 5
>
> The install process went smoothly, but there were numerous "no such file or
> directory" errors on reboot. When it eventually hit a login prompt, none of
> the filesystems which had been marked as XFS seemed to be present (/boot was
> left as ext2).
>
> I've heard that there might be a block size issue with XFS supporting only
> 4k blocks and the Compaq Array controller supporting only 1k blocks. But I
> don't know if that's the issue here.
Hmm, I will have to leave it up to other people on the list to comment
on this
>
>
> A couple of other questions:
>
> 1) according to the installer, you seem to be able to create a 100% XFS
> system, but there's no mention of whether or not LILO has to go into the MBR
> to support this. is this still true?
Yes you have to use either the MBR, or a non xfs partition for lilo (swap
actually works), the issue is that xfs starts at block zero in a partition
and hence leaves no room for lilo within the partition itself.
> 2) many people have recommended leaving /boot as ext2, is this still
> advisable?
Lilo works just fine on xfs partitions, with the exception of the above
caveat.
>
> Thanks!
>
> michael
>
>
> Michael J. Venables
> Compaq Competitive Analysis
> Industry Standard Server Group
> 20555 SH 249, MS 090803
> Houston, Texas 77070-2698
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>
> Of course I use Microsoft. Setting up a stable
> UNIX network is no challenge at all...
>
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