XFS and /boot

[Aly Dharshi]

Possible solution ???

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 12:07, Aly Dharshi wrote:

 >> Hi Folks,
 >>
 >> 	Has anybody encountered the error whereby they get a sort of hanging
 >> problem while installing the bootloader in RH9.


I hit it 4 times on 4 machines last week, seems to be very simple.
You need to switch to the console with a shell on it and kill grub,
it is in a cpu loop.

Then do a chroot to the root of the install tree (/mnt/install I think)
and run grub there.

Inside grub to

root (hd0,x)
setup (hd0)

that assumes hd0 is the disk containing the /boot directory and x
is the partition number on that disk.

Then return to the installer and complete the installation.

Steve

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Richard Houston wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Noticed a small issue with XFS file system and the setting up grub on FC3.
> I have found that if you are using XFS on the /boot partition the
> installer hangs when trying to install the boot loader. Basically it says
> installing boot loader and the hour Glass just spins and spins but it
> never finishes.
> 
> I found the same issue on FC2. If I install the ext3 on the boot partition
> there in no issue. I can then have XFS on the / and any other partitions.
> 
> Any thought or comment or should I just go straight to Bugzilla?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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