Well, the post on the site with the 7.3 installer said
this was his last installer for RH. If we wanted XFS on
a
distro then we had to beat on the distro vendor to
provide
support. I can't believe RH doesn't yet have XFS
support!
What is wrong with them?
On 15 Apr 2003 11:00:35 -0500
Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Great work.
>
>Any word yet on a cd-rom based XFS installer for RH 9.0
>yet.
>
>Just wondering. Really looking forward to this.
>
>Thanks
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:18, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
>> Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> > Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> > ...
>> >
>> >> 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.
>>
>> // Stefan
>>
>>
>--
>Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>
>
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