On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 10:02 -0400, David Cantrell wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 00:41 +0000, zyk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I am trying to install FC5 on XFS. I have been using FC on XFS since FC3 and install processes always had been very smooth. > > > It seems that FC5 (or Anaconda) does not accept /boot on XFS filesystem. Did anyone have success to install FC5 on XFS partition? > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > I believe that is intentional. There are wide spread reports on problems > > with booting off a XFS partition. > > > > For example, http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060501#tips > > > > Note that other filesystems besides Ext3 is provided only for migration > > reasons and not testing is being done on them. > > Boot up the installer with: > > linux xfs > > (This also works to enable reiserfs: linux reiserfs) > > You will have to create partitions manually. Anaconda does restrict > /boot to ext3, but your other filesystems can be xfs or reiserfs. Note > that it's 100% completely unsupported and bugs opened about xfs and > reiserfs are closed wontfix (unless it's actually interesting). > > It's also worth noting that XFS and Reiserfs don't work with SELinux, so > if you want to use XFS or Reiserfs, be sure to disable selinux in your > grub boot options and in /etc/sysconfig/selinux. XFS should work with SELinux. There was temporary breakage in 2.6.14 and 2.6.15 due to the introduction of atomic inode labeling support, but 2.6.16 should work again. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list