Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
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> I just installed Mandrake 8.0 using the XFS Cooker ISO image from
> thebarn.com. All went well except for two glitches:
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> 1. Although the kernel installed by the
> CDROM supports XFS, the CDROM itself
> doesn't \(in rescue mode, I mean\).
> This makes one of my favorite things
> unusable \(using the CDROM that way\).
type modprobe xfs from the rescue shell... that will
load the xfs modules into the kernel.
and xfs capable kernel is to big to fit on a floppy as such
the xfs modules are part of the second stage located on the CD.
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> 2. More serious: the grub installed by
> this CDROM doesn't support XFS! The
> way this seems to manifest is that
> even if you specify GRUB during the
> 'install bootloader' phase, it will
> install lilo. If you later try to
> install grub, it tells you that
> partitition X has an unsupported
> filesystem type.
Yes grub does not support XFS yet (somebody from the
grub camp has started work on it) you must
use lilo at this time if your kernel is on an xfs partition.
Note one option if grub is mandatory is to make /boot ext2 and the rest of the
system xfs.
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Russell Cattelan
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Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.
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