I don't think there were actually any missing files (in the conventional
sense). It looked as if it was trying to touch or reference files deep under
/var -- and since var (along with most everything else) didn't mount, it was
obviously going to choke.
re. the devfsd question... I didn't even see an option in the installer to
do that. I was under the impression that the SGI kernel had it active by
default.
the steps of install went smoothly. partitioning, user config, package
selection, X config (even though the configuration test is missing -- that's
RH's problem). the disk swaps seemed to be fine.
one of the errors I got (don't remember the particulars of which failed
install that was) said "fs type swap not supported by kernel". but the main
hangs seemed to be upon trying to activate system logger and ipchains (more
than other things).
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Cattelan [mailto:cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 5:52 PM
To: Venables, Michael
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XFS install from ISO fails utterly
>
>
> 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).
What were the missing files?
/dev/tty?
you didn't happen to not install devfsd for some reason?
--
Russell Cattelan
--
Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.
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