Stephane KLEIN wrote:
> I was not able to put an XFS partition on the root filesystem because
> the system is not able to mount it during the first reboot. This is
> probably due to the fact that the /etc/hosts file uses a label "/" for
> the root fs and XFS does not seems to have any label on its partitions.
(/etc/hosts? I assume you mean /etc/fstab?)
I have not seen label problems like this before... the booting problems
I've seen so far have been either lilo-related, or some people have seen
the installer de-select formatting the root FS by default. You might
try using the CD in rescue mode ("boot: linux rescue") and poke around
to see what the format the / filesystem really is - there's a chance
that it's ext2, but /etc/fstab says "xfs".
> The other problem is with devfs and some devices like the mouse and the
> cd. During the boot the ide-cd module is not loaded and the device nodes
> for the cd are not created. I can fix this by modifying the init scripts
> but I would like to know the real solution. For the mouse the problem is
> that XFree86 is trying to use /dev/mouse which does not exist.
This is on the caveats list. The installer does not configure mouse
devices correctly, and/or devfsd is not configured to provide the
devices that Red Hat expects. (You can look at it either way).
You can work around this by either modifying your /etc/fstab,
/etc/X11/XF86Config, etc. for the new devices devfs provides, or by
configuring /etc/devfsd.conf to provide the devices that Red Hat
expects.
One of the problems with automatic module loading is that
/etc/modules.devfs is missing from the devfsd RPM - this file helps
devfsd auto-load modules as necessary. See this and other caveats at
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/installcavs.html
-Eric
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