Hi Malcolm -
For starters, you're not booting off the floppy the installer created,
are you? The XFS kernel is big enough that the installer usually can't
fit it on a floppy (yes, a warning would have been good...).
There are no ext2<->xfs conversion tools. Backup & restore is the only
migration path.
Regarding 2.4.9, I just released a test version of Red Hat's 7.1 update
kernel, with the latest XFS bits merged.
-Eric
On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 10:49, Malcolm Cowe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent part of today trying to install an XFS enabled RH 7.1
> distribution based on your ISO cdrom image. However, when the system
> reboots after the install completes, I get the following error just
> after the kernel uncompresses:
>
> invalid compressed format
> -- System halted
>
> >From searching the Web, there doesn't appear to be any conclusive
> discussion about what this error means. The most likely answer is that
> the kernel image has been corrupted, but I don't know how that could be
> -- I put a separate 32MB /boot partition right at the start of the disk,
> and use ext2 for it.
>
> I'm using a NetServer LH3000 from HP with a NetRAID 2M card configured
> for 2x36GB disks in RAID 1. I have tried installing a stock RH system
> with the same file system layout, and it succeeds. If I have to create
> my own kernel image, are there any fs conversion tools to help me? Also,
> which kernel revision would you recommend (we are sticking with 2.4.9
> for the most part since it appears more stable than the newer releases)?
--
Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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