Unable to boot up FC6 x64 in Asus M2N-E

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>> FC6 installed to device_mapper, but when it booted, it kept complaining
>> about device i/o error. In fact, the Xen kernel couldn't find the
>> partitions set up by the installation program at all.
>>
>> The harddisk has WinXP x32 installed.
>
> Sorry. I guess Fedora Core hates XFS. No problem after falling back to ext3.

Actually, its the FC6 installer which seems to hate XFS.  I ran into the 
same problem on a fresh FC6 installation (which had nothing to do with 
Xen).  I ended up using Knoppix to format my partitions XFS, and then 
installed FC6 without any issues.

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