"Gonyou, Austin" wrote:
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> A tech here has 2 hdd's on his system, hda and hdb. hda is full with windows
> 2k, hdb is RH 7.1. All boot partitions are on hdb for linux. No LILO
> installed on hda. When installed with RH 7.1 SGI XFS installer 1.0.1, the
> system will not boot at all from hdb, not even with a floppy. If using no
> XFS, it will boot no problem. What is causing this behaviour? Is it
> something to do with the way XFS needs to find it's boot device? Thanks for
> the help.
The only unique thing about XFS is that you cannot put lilo in the first
sector of an XFS partition - it has to be in the MBR,* and the 1.0.1
installer won't let you do it any other way. You say "no LILO is
installed on hda" - so how is booting set up? What error do you get
when it fails?
Also, not surprising that you can't boot from a floppy, since an
XFS-capable kernel is tough to fit on a floppy. Should have put that
info in the installer, I suppose.
You can boot the CD and type "linux rescue" to poke around and
re-configure the system if you need to...
*This is because XFS puts data where LILO would otherwise go. I think
this is in the FAQ.
-Eric
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Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx SGI, Inc.
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