> >>If you want, I can provide a more detailed description of the error
> messages.
>
> When booting up for the first time:
>
> * several messages: /var/run/wtmp, /var/lock/subsys/kudzu, network,
> ipchains: No such file or directory
>
> * mounting local filesystems: device does not exist ==> several partitions
> are not mounted.
>
> * eth0: failed
>
> * Starting system logger ==> takes a LOT of time.
>
> Al these problems do NOT occur if I simply install RH 7.1. It only happens
> if I use XFS 1.0
>
> Werner Maes
> KULeuven
>
OK, on the initial release we still had a default in xfs which caused
the rpm database files to get a lot larger than they normally do, this
caused a higher load on the root filesystem which in turn caused it to
fill the partition containing /var in some circumstances. If /var
was also / then you end up with lots of missing files. You can
tell if this is happening from the install log which gets created.
Try making /var it's own partition, or making your root partition
larger. You should then probably upgrade to the 1.0.1 kernel rpm (the 2.4.2
version seems to behave better at the moment), although this is in
testing still.
The other thing is that devfs is turned on in the 1.0 release, we are
leaning towards compiling it in, but defaulting to not mounting it
at startup in the final version of the 1.0.1 rpms. In the meantime,
the lilo option :
append="devfs=nomount"
Steve
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