I was going to say. I just re-installed 8.1 on an XFS partition and ran into the same issue.
Configuration: Intel PIII/450 256MB RAM Boot to Adaptec 2940UW, Seagate Barracuda SCSI Drive. When installing I received an error that the installed could not install the LILO boot loader, I choose the "sludge" area that is left over when you format a large volume hard drive. The installer put the boot loader there, and everything works fine. It appears to be a legitimate defect in either the boot loader installer or the boot loader LILO. Regards, Devin. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charlie M. Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Possible bug - cannot install boot loader on XFS f On Friday 09 August 2002 04:26 pm, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > mandrakeexpert incident 28907 forwarded to cooker. 8.2 was installed on XFS partitions on this system and the only trouble that I had was making a boot disk. Then I re-installed it with a separate ext3 /boot partition. beta2 would install but wouldn't boot for me until I put the /root and /boot (was always ext3) partitions together on one ext3 partition. No separate /boot. I wasn't about to reformat the entire system and lose everything. The boot continued to a point then went: "kernel panic VFS: unable to mount root at 03:05!" repeatedly. It was OK booting form a boot disk, it just wouldn't boot otherwise. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading statements, sooner or later the product will speak for itself. - Hajime Karatsu
