On Wednesday 29 May 2002 05:37 pm, Franki wrote:
> I too am a proponent of reiserfs...
> I tried XFS with 8.2 but the inability of a boot disk really caused
> me problems, (my existing IBM300PL home server won't boot from the
> 40 gig IBM hard disk by itself (only see's it as a 8.4gig.) so the
> only way to get linux up and running is via boot disk.. (linux then
> see's the full 40gig also.)
> XFS driver is too big to fit on a floppy.
I'll not argue that that is the current wisdom, but .....
While I was usin XFS I was able to make boot disks every time i tried
(5 or 6 different kernels, 3 different XFS installs). Two things,
I changed floppy's fstab line to use 'auto' rather than 'fs=vfat'.
I recompiled the kernel using Mandrake's default config (editing only
to enable CONFIG_MK7=y and comment out i586).
That was to optimize for athlon, but I don't believe arch type
makes the difference. I did one kernel usin i686 (actually by
mistake ;) and was able to make a boot disk for that kernel also.
Then 'mkbootdisk $(uname -r)' (as root) always successfully made
an XFS boot disk. Dunno why, just lucky I guess ;)
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