Running RH 7.2 with XFS 1.0.2 on an Athlon 1 GHz + Abit KT7E mainboard
here (3 IBM 45 GB IDE HD's installed). Works great. Does installing a
'canned' distro with XFS work? The problem may be something in your
kernel compilation.
Ben
On Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 12:49 PM, Joe Landman wrote:
Drew:
I would go with a distribution that supports XFS. That would be
Mandrake 8.1 or MSC.Linux from MSC.Software (I work the them). Both
work quite well on Athlon hardware (Tyan, Abit, Asus, Gigabyte, ECS).
RedHat 7.2 can be shoehorned to take XFS as can be seen from the
excellent work of the folks at SGI who redid the RedHat installer. It
is a shame the folks over at RedHat havent seen the light.
Do the standard diagnostic stuff on your hardware. AMD Athlon +
Motherboard + Linux + XFS does work quite well. Only problems I have had
seems to have stemmed from devfs. A devfs=nomount seems to make most of
them go away.
Joe
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 13:07, Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell wrote:
Fellow XFS users:
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My company has been working with XFS-Linux on Intel systems for some
time
and has had some difficulties getting a stable Linux w/XFS release to
work
on some of our older K6-2 systems. Instead of butting our heads against
a
case of potentially suspect hardware, we're looking to upgrade to a
group
of Athlon-based systems. In this, I have a few questions:
1. What can those of you running Linux w/XFS recommend for motherboards
to
go with an Athlon processor?
(We might as well get hardware we know works by experience.)
2. Are they any special changes to your kernels used to work correctly
with
an Athlon-based system?
Our initial attempts at doing an Athlon + Linux + XFS solution haven't
worked.
We've tried the following methods:
2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
gcc
2.4.14 source from kernel.org, patched to XFS 1.0.2, compiled using
kgcc
Pre-patched XFS 1.0.2 kernel source from SGI, compiled using kgcc
Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
--Drew 'Cheetah!' Maxwell [cheetah@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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