OK here goes =)
System: intel dual pIII, 512M ram, Mylex DAC960P V4 RAID5
Mylex is configured with write-thru cache
When installing in expert mode with all ReiserFS partitions, the install
proceeds flawlessly but when the system reboots the DAC960 and ReiserFS
modules appearently collide, causing a kernel oops when the kernel tries
to mount its root filesystem.
I worked around this issue by installing on a single 8g ext2 partition,
then reformatting the other partitions as ReiserFS and copying the proper
files to the proper places. After recompiling the kernel with DAC960 and
ReiserFS support built in there are no problems.
Another (possibly minor) issue is when you don't select X to be installed
in server/expert mode, the install program still configures X and adds a
server without being asked. Manually skipping past this part by clicking
on the last step of install (make image disk) then answering "no" just
brought me back to X configuration. So I went to vty2 unmounted the
newly installed filesystems, and rebooted with ctrl/alt/del. The results
were catastrophic, as ldconfig didn't appear to ever be run =)
Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then
again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted
install if one tests their X configuration and it fails.
Thanks,
-dwild
