Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 1/29/2010 11:47 AM: > The bottom line: it is not enough to know the names of the packages > installed on your system. You must also know whether they were > installed from the Lenny repository or the Squeeze repository to > know, in the general case, what program it re

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:59:47 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote: > You are being very helpfull for many people, but i use Lilo! So do I! Grub2 is not yet ready for production use, in my humble opinion. Not by me anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:43 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote: >> you, can not know if it is correct, just i can. > > Yes, of course.  But you *told* me that it was correct.  At least that > was my interpretation of what you meant when you said >> Yes, it is correct, but

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:43 -0500 (EST), consul tores wrote: > you, can not know if it is correct, just i can. Yes, of course. But you *told* me that it was correct. At least that was my interpretation of what you meant when you said > Yes, it is correct, but in this specific case ... I just t

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:55:06 -0500, consul tores wrote: >> 2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : >>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:23 -0500, consul tores wrote: Hi I am having a similar problem with a Celeron 800, 384 Mb RAM. I had Lenny as a ssh/ftp/openvpn s

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:55:06 -0500, consul tores wrote: > 2010/1/29 Stephen Powell : >> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:23 -0500, consul tores wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I am having a similar problem with a Celeron 800, 384 Mb RAM. >>> >>> I had Lenny as a ssh/ftp/openvpn server, then i did upgrade to Squeeze

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:27:23 -0500, consul tores wrote: > Hi > > I am having a similar problem with a Celeron 800, 384 Mb RAM. > > I had Lenny as a ssh/ftp/openvpn server, then i did upgrade to Squeeze > having the mentioned problem with Grub2, It could not be installed; > after that i decide to

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread consul tores
2010/1/28 Account for Debian group mail : > > Hello, > > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny > upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on this XFS boot file syst

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:38:35 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > ... > Below is the cause and fix for > the lilo initrd problem discussed in the Lenny Release Notes. > ... Oops! I made my last post to this thread before I saw this one. Sorry for the redundant post. I got behind on my e-mails overnigh

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:04:51 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The problem described in the release notes arises when you try to install a > stock Lenny initrd 2.6.26 kernel _after_ the dist upgrade. Apparently some of > the stock Lenny kernels have an initrd image that's too large for lilo to > hand

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:40:09 -0500, Ken wrote: > Hello, > > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny > upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on this XFS boot fi

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:40:09 -0800, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a > Lenny upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on thi

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Account for Debian group mail put forth on 1/28/2010 11:21 PM: > > > I'll take a look. I usually don't turn that stuff on but I'll check it out. Twas just a thought. Often that is the cause of that specific hang issue. However, again, I recommend you stick with LILO. Below is the cause and fi

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I'll take a look. I usually don't turn that stuff on but I'll check it out. Ken On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Account for Debian group mail put forth on 1/28/2010 10:40 PM: Well it might be but it hangs up on install. Could this be due to "BIOS boot sector write/virus prote

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Account for Debian group mail put forth on 1/28/2010 10:40 PM: > Well it might be but it hangs up on install. Could this be due to "BIOS boot sector write/virus protection" being enabled? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Account for Debian group mail put forth on 1/28/2010 9:40 PM: > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a > Lenny upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on this XFS boot

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Account for Debian group mail
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Tony Nelson wrote: On 10-01-28 22:40:09, Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS root-boot file system. The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny upgrade. From wha

Re: Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-01-28 22:40:09, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > Hello, > > On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS > root-boot file system. > > The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a > Lenny upgrade. From what I read on this list, you c

Grub on XFS root filesystem

2010-01-28 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Hello, On one of my machines that I'm trying to upgrade to Lenny has a XFS root-boot file system. The upgrade docs state that I need to switch from lilo to grub for a Lenny upgrade. But I cannot get grub to install on this XFS boot file system, it just hangs up. Anyone know how to get thi