You may remember that I was having problems using XFS on an HP NetServer
last week using the XFS installer for RH 7.1. After much rooting around,
it appears that the problem may have to do with a conflict between the
kernel driver for the NetRAID SCSI interface included with the server (a
NetRAID 2M card in this instance), and the firmware distributed by HP.
Apparently the firmware isn't particularly good at 64 bit addressing.
>From the "megaraid.c" driver source (linux 2.4.9):
*
* Check added for HP 1M/2M controllers if having firmware H.01.07 or
* H.01.08. If found, disable 64 bit support since these firmware have
* limitations for 64 bit addressing
*
This conflict has been resolved in newer kernel revisions, and so I am
confident that I will be able to use XFS in future projects on this
hardware platform. I cannot say for certain that this was the
contributing factor, but it appears to have been the most likely cause,
and is not necessarily XFS specific since the recommendation is to
upgrade the driver on all RH 7.1 based systems.
Regards,
--
Malcolm Cowe.
IT | Technical Computing, Telephone: +44 131 331 6466
Agilent Technologies Ltd. Telnet: 313-3466
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)?
>
> If you can help, I'd appreciate it.
>
> --
> Malcolm Cowe.
> IT | Technical Computing, Telephone: +44 131 331 6466
> Agilent Technologies Ltd. Telnet: 313-3466
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