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[Willem Riede]

On 10/13/2005 05:22:34 PM, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 22:55 +0000, Willem Riede wrote:
> 
> > 2. Doing a custom partitioning, with 7G free on a drive, asking to use all
> 
> > space remaining for swap gave me 1992 MB swap area and 5G still unused.
> 
> We limit swap to 2GB, and round down to the cylinder boundary.  Do you
> really need more than 2GB of swap?
> 
> (If you're 2GB into swap, will going another 5GB into swap really make
> you happier?  I somehow doubt it.)
> 
> > 3. I made /dev/md0 out of /dev/sda1 and sdb1, and at the end of install
> grub
> > was run on both disks:
> >
> > grub> root (hd1,0)
> > filesystem is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
> > grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd1) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> > (hd1,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf
> > grub> root (hd0,0)
> > filesystem is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
> > grub> install /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> > (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf
> > Error 16: Inconsistent filesystsem structure
> > grub>
> 
> I haven't seen this happen with ext3.  Are you able to reproduce it?

Not entirely. Today's rawhide (10/15) permitted a graphical install.
I did not see any error messages from the grub install, however,
the system did still not boot from hard disk, and I had to whip out
the grub floppy again...

Regards, Willem Riede.