Re: [ANNOUNCE] Red Hat Linux 9 XFS DVD Released

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Russell Cattelan wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 19:02, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
>
> > Hi Mogens.
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > Hm, there must be a better way of doing this (tm). Remounting
> > > > > the installation partition?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Success! It turned out to be easier than I thought:
> > > >
> > > > I couldn't umount /mnt/sysimage, it was busy because
> > > > /mnt/sysimage/proc and /mnt/sysimage/dev/pts were
> > > > also mounted.
> > > >
> > > > To umount everything, and mount it again,
> > > > one has to add these two lines to
> > > > /usr/lib/booty/bootloaderInfo.py in stage2.img,
> > > > near line 806, (inbetween the calls
> > > > of /sbin/grub-install and /sbin/grub):
> > > >
> > > >            fsset.umountFilesystems(instRoot)
> > > >            fsset.mountFilesystems(instRoot)
> > > >
> > > > - maybe the upgradeGrub function needs to
> > > > be changed as well...
> > > >
> > > > It works both if the /boot directory
> > > > is a part of the root directory, and if
> > > > /boot is on an XFS partition of its own.
> > > >
> > > > Mogens
> > >
> > > Excellent work. I'll be testing this and will probably release a new DVD
> > > with this fix tomorrow. Thanx alot.
> >
> > Sadly enough it didn't help.
> >
> > I got an exception because the partition is in use...
> >
> > And yes, I inserted those two lines on line 806.
>
>
> Yes I discoverd the same thing.
> I think the real solutions is to do a readonly
> and then a read write mount.
> I just don't know if the python code supports a remount.
>
>
> > // Stefan

It doesn't by default but I'm testing a workaround right now.

May I ask why you used the 2.4.20-8XFS kernel and not the 2.4.20-9XFS 
kernel that I made? Thought it could be an idea to be up to date on the 
files you replace at least?

// Stefan