Yeah, I have been using ext3 for the boot partition and all is good as well. I have posted a bug in bugzilla. I feel that is needs to be fixed either way. Would be nice to have fixed. Thanks guys and keep up the good work. Regards, +------------------------------------------+ | Richard Houston .^. | | R.L.H. Consulting /V\ | | E-Mail <rhouston@xxxxxxxx> /( )\ | | WWW <www.rlhc.net> ^^-^^ | +------------------------------------------+ Aly Dharshi said: > So I guess one thing that would have to happen is a fix for RPM if that > hasn't > been fixed. Secondly I think I posted a solution it may do the trick > courtesy of > Steve Lord, I hope that its still valid. Finally lobby the Fedora Core > folks to > fix this problem. > > I usually set /boot to reiserfs and off to the races I go. > > Cheers, > > Aly. > > Richard Houston wrote: >> 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 >>> >>> >> >> > > -- > 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 > >
