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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