Weird boot problem??

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > 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.

OK, i wasn't aware that this was out.

I'd still be leary of using RH8.