[FC3] Syslog issue

[Tim Wunder]

On 11/18/2004 11:40 AM, I believe that Leon Goldstein wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:56:47 -0500, im Wunder wrote:
> 
>> I've installed FC3 with XFS on an old AMD K6 with 284 MB RAM and an 80 
>> GB Seagate HDD. During the install, the installer froze when 
>> configuring  GRUB.It pegged the CPU at 99% for several hours before I 
>> gave up and  rebooted thesystem from the command line. The system did 
>> boot up OK, but  syslog doesn'tseem to be running.
>> All error messages are being displayed on the Console and nothing gets 
>> written to /var/log/messages.
> 
> 
> By any chance are uyou using an add-on IDE controller?

Nope.

> I have a similar box: Compaq Presario (AMD k6-III+) in  which I use a  
> Promise PCI IDE card.
> I've had some problems with some Linuces that are confused by the drive  
> identification, i.e. the mbr is on /dev/hde.
> I use Libranet 2.8.1 and let its GRUB chainload everything SuSE 9.1, but 
> I  had to use a kernel line with parameters for an older Libranet 
> (1.9.1)  which boots with LILO.  It would not chainload.
> 

I'm assuming that was the Grub/XFS bug that Lonnie mentioned. Doesn't seem 
to be what's affecting the syslog problem anyway as that's apparently 
selinux related.

Regards,
Tim