Mike Sowka wrote:
These are all devfs issues discussed many times on the xfs list.
Please refer to the archives.
http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ml.html
devfs may be disabled by adding "devfs=nomount" to your
append line in lilo.conf
> I have to say... I was very excited about using XFS but for now am
> a little dissapointed. I'll start with saying that my system works
> without a glitch (and without XFS :( ) on my regular RH7.1 installation.
> This means I had ide-scsi emulation working for my IDE CDR, my sound
> card ( SoundBlaster 5.1) and TNT2 Ultra with the latest NVIDIA modules
> and GLX.
> Upon installing XFS (with the RH7.1 installer), where everything
> seemed to have gone find, funny things started to happend. I installed
> XFS file system on all three of my Linux partitions (/boot, /, and
> /home), I have two FAT32 partitions as well. Off the bat I get an error
> during startup which goes something like this:
> Updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/scd0 [FAILED]
> Then uppon "fully" booting up it seems that I don't have eithor my my
> CDROMs, one of which is a regular cdrom on /dev/hdb and my CDR on
> /dev/hdd (by the way I did the installation with "linear" and
> "hdd=ide-scsi" flags in lilo). Upon running through the /dev/ide and
> /dev/scsi trees it seems that the /dev/ide/cd does not want to mount and
> /dev/scsi/cd does but both links under /dev/cdrom(1) are broken... :(
> Moving on... after recompiling the NVIDIA_kernel like I have done so
> so many times before and changing the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 X did not
> restart after reboot!!!!
> Sound card does not work either... :(
> Conclusion: PLEASE, PLEASE look into these as I haven't given up on
> XFS just yet and get back to me on any sort of "work-arounds"! I'm back
> to ex2 for now.. but will be waiting patiently for any fixes or
> updates... RSVP
> Thanx,
> Mike
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