Re: XFS/Opteron and 2.6.0-test3

[cdelgad2@bigred.unl.edu]

Quoting Net Llama! <netllama@linux-sxs.org>:

> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 cdelgad2@bigred.unl.edu wrote:
> > I have been trying to compile the 2.6.0-test3 kernel on a dual Opteron
> box with
> > XFS support for a while now.  The base system is RedHat's GinGin
> 'preview'
> > release.  I have had diferent problems trying to compile the kernel. 
> At first
> > the system would reach:
> > 'Uncompressng the linux kernel
> > Booting the kernel . '
> >
> > and hang there.  Then I got the kernel to boot up but non of the tty's
> (tty0,
> > tty1, tty2, etc) would come up and I would get all sorts of nasty
> errors when
> > the init script would start about the tty's not being there and then
> the system
> > would just go crazy when the runlevel script was run.  and I'd get an
> error to
> > the effect of:
> > "runlevel 3 respawning to fast: wating 5 minutes"
> 
> And the kernel boots just fine withou XFS support?

tell you the truth, I haven't tried.  I need the XFS so it never crossed my mind
to try it without that module....  I'm giving it a shot now.  I'll post results
in a bit.

Thanks,

-Cesar