Thanks for the feedback - I did not quite expect grub
to work. It seems to want to access the bits on disk
via the filesystem and via the block device, almost at the
same time. This often does not work, because things
are not coherent between the two.
If you have the time, please file bugs with Red Hat on the xfs
integration problems you find - xfs is not explicitly supported
(well... nothing in Fedora is supported...) but it'd be nice
to get these on-record.
Thanks!
-Eric
On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> Funny you should ask. The installer hung when it got to the point of
> installing Grub. There doesn't seem to be any choice in bootloaders,
> its Grub or, you're on your own. I guess i could have hacked LILO into
> place post-install, but i really wasn't in the mood for such heroics.
> I'm still a die-hard LILO fan, and this grub stuff just rubs me the
> wrong way, even if it went swimmingly.
>
> At any rate, i followed this advice:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=107704299608539&w=2
>
> and it appeared to get me back in business. Or so I thought, but
> apparently killing grub manually sends anaconda into a tila spin, and
> the installer self-terminates abnormally.
>
> Looks like Redhat still hasn't quite figured out this XFS concept. Upon
> boot it tries to run fsck.xfs which doesn't exist. That seemed to freak
> out the boot process a bit. At any rate, i've got a 2.6.1 kernel to
> play with, so i'm moderately satisfied.
>
> You SGI folks are miles ahead of Redhat on getting their distro to
> install properly.
>
> On 03/08/04 16:32, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity, did you use the grub bootloader?
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Yup that worked perfectly. thanks!
> >>
> >>On 03/05/04 20:29, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I believe it does, as an unsupported option - try
> >>>booting "linux xfs" at the prompt, or something like that.
> >>>
> >>>And let us know how it goes. :)
> >>>
> >>>-eric
> >>>
>
>
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