Weird boot problem??

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 2/10/2003 1:09 PM, someone claiming to be 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.
> >
>
> ooh...
> So I could just do the kernel upgrade?
> hmmm...

Well, upgrading the kernel isn't going to get you an XFS filesystem.  You
still can't nondestructive convert to XFS.

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