Re: I20 and XFS 1.0 - any known issues?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:30 28-9-2001 +0930, Tony Clark wrote:
> on 28/9/01 4:35 PM, Seth Mos at knuffie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > At 00:59 28-9-2001 +0930, Tony Clark wrote:
> >> We'd previously tried the 1.0.1 + update combo but it kept dying part way
> >> through the install.
> >
> > You are sure that the hardware is correct.
>
> We'd previously had it working under 6.2 with the I2O Kernel that Intel
> released with the board.  It was based on 2.2.16, and seemed to behave OK
> with that combo.  It's now up and working, but we ended up using the 1.0 XFS
> CD, and setting the filesystems to be EXT2 (yuck) rather than XFS ( happines
> ).

Hmmm, I have never encountered this raid adapter before. Would you need a 
seperate patch for getting it to work? I have tried getting the AMI 
Megaraid in I2O mode which always resulted in a kernel panic.

What you could try is build a cvs kernel (currently 2.4.10) which might not 
have this problem. There is no installer yet with a kernel later then 2.4.5 
so a bit of time is needed before this can be used.

There is no word yet on a RedHat 7.2 installer disk although this would 
probably be started after 7.2 is officially released. Anyone wishing to 
participate or contribute may contact the list.

>> The 1.0 gets all the way through the install, but hangs at the point where
> >> it's trying to mount the file systems.
> >
> > Any errors in the log or the second console? Is this in the installer or
> > after installing? If it is in the installer you could switch to the 4th or
> > 5th console to see what might be going wrong.
> Couldn't really tell due to frustration at about our 8th install attempt.

!

> Now it's up again, we'll start to figure out what was going wrong and
> hopefully isolate it to something more definate.  We'll have a go at making
> some filesystems XFS, which may show us what's up.

If you have a working system complete with logging it might be a bit 
simpler to debug.

> >> Any ideas or experiences shared would be appreciated - I could use some
> >> sleep...
> >
> > I just had some.
>
> Well, I got at least 2&1/2 last night, so it's home time for more.  Thanks
> to those who responded.

You're welcome.

Cheers

--
Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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