Weird boot problem??

[Andrew Mathews]

Net Llama! wrote:
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> 
> Nope.  I'd say the biggest reason is that there isn't any way of
> installing RH8 natively on XFS.  And the fact that RH8 isn't considered to
> be all that stable.  I've intentionally kept all my boxes at 7.3 for those
> two reasons.

Correction. I install RH 8.0 natively simply by using the SGI install 
image. I guess the term "natively" may be questionable since it's not 
part of the RH distro though.
It's at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre1/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2pre1.iso
I also did a kernel upgrade to 2.4.19 using the rpm:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre5/kernel_rpms/RPMS/i686/kernel-2.4.19-SGI_XFS_1.2pre5.i686.rpm
yesterday on one laptop. I'm doing the other one tonight.


>>I haven't embarked on the task for several reasons, among them:
>>- Patching the RH kernel with XFS, seems non-trivial to me.
> 
> 
> It is non-trivial.  Then again, you can't patch any RH kernel (AFAIK) with
> the XFS patches.  The patches are designed for the vanilla kernel.
> 
> 
>>- I've read that 2.95.x is required for stable kernel building and RH
>>8.0 only has gcc-3.2.1

I've built several using 3.2 without a problem.

> Yea, i read the same, although there are alot of success stories from
> folks using gcc-3.x.
> 
> 
>>- Need space to copy the data to XFS

While I use backup tapes, if you have a spare disk you can mount it's 
quicker and easier.

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