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At 00:21 21-6-2002 -0700, Matthew Bandy wrote: |
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>I may have missed a kernel option somewhere, but it seems to me that |
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>the gentoo-sources kernel supports hard drives larger than 137GB, |
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>while the xfs-sources kernel does not. This bit me trying to install |
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>using XFS on a 160GB drive, because the install saw the disk as the |
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>full 160GB, while my newly built xfs-sources kernel saw only the first |
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>137GB, and I ended up with a non-bootable system because it couldn't |
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>find init. It might help someone else in the same situation out to |
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>add a warning covering this problem to the installation |
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>documentation -- I didn't realize what was causing the problem until I |
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>had already reinstalled using ext3 and gentoo-sources and then tried |
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>to switch to 2.4.18. |
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The XFS CVS tree does not include any IDE patches for the 48bit LBA code. |
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AFAIK 2.4.19 mainline will have the IDE patches included which means that |
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it will probably work from then on. |
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When 2.4.19 is released the CVS tree will be updated as well. It might be a |
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good idea to put the IDE patch in the xfs-sources as well. |
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Cheers |
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Seth |
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It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew. |
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