Not using the boot disk. Might just grab your patched kernel package and
see if I can't shoehorn it in, though.
Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> 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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