Thanks for the response. So is there or will there be a fix for this? Or are we stuck rooting into the rescue mode to fix the boot loader, which does work by the way. Regards, +------------------------------------------+ | Richard Houston .^. | | R.L.H. Consulting /V\ | | E-Mail <rhouston@xxxxxxxx> /( )\ | | WWW <www.rlhc.net> ^^-^^ | +------------------------------------------+ Aly Dharshi said: > This is a known problem. It happened all the way back since the SGI XFS > Redhat 9 > CD. Its to do with RPM: > > Steve Lord said on the XFS list: > > Now you have hit the bug in rpm in the 9.0 release, it attempts to > do O_DIRECT but sends a misaligned buffer. You need to run rpm with > the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL set to 2.2.5. > > Newer rpm packages from rpm.org do not have this problem. > > The reason this does not show in normal redhat setups is they have > O_DIRECT turned off in the kernel. We have it enabled for XFS. > > > > > 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? >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> +------------------------------------------+ >> | Richard Houston .^. | >> | R.L.H. Consulting /V\ | >> | E-Mail <rhouston@xxxxxxxx> /( )\ | >> | WWW <www.rlhc.net> ^^-^^ | >> +------------------------------------------+ >> >> > > -- > Aly Dharshi > aly.dharshi@xxxxxxxxx > > "A good speech is like a good dress > that's short enough to be interesting > and long enough to cover the subject" > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
