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:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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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