XFS in Fedora Core 2

Andre Meyer meyer at acm.org
Wed May 19 20:31:03 UTC 2004


Hi Rick

I did log in as root and tried "startx" which gave a ton of error 
messages. Some installation must be missing, because the installation 
hung at the installation of the bootloader.

I realised the confusion between the XFS file system and the font 
server, as well

thanks
Andre

Rick Stevens wrote:

> Andre Meyer wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> After a great new download of Fedora Core 2 yesterday, I immediately 
>> tried to install it. My first thought was that I needed to try uot 
>> XFS because I read a lot about how cool and fast XFS was compared to 
>> ext3. After finding out that one needs to boot the installer using 
>> "linux xfs" (undocumented) I chose to format with XFS and install.
>>
>> Unfortunately, at the end of the installation it hung while trying to 
>> install the bootloader GRUB. After a reset, FC2 boots, but only in 
>> text mode. X won't start, because - I assume - the installation was 
>> not finished.
>>
>> Why does XFS not work? What can be done about it?
>
>
> It did work.  The system booted, did it not?  If you log in and do a
> "mount" command, the filesystems show up as mounted under XFS, right?
>
> Why didn't X-Windows start?  That's a good question.  You might try to
> start it manually by entering "startx" or by "telinit 5".  You may still
> have to configure it via "redhat-config-xfree86".
>
> Also note that "xfs" can be confusing (and I wish the twits who
> developed the XFS file system took that into account).  There's "xfs"
> the filesystem AND "xfs" the "X font server" (which predates the
> filesystem by a number of years).  Make sure you specify which one
> you're speaking of.  Note that if "xfs" (the font one) isn't running,
> X-Windows won't run, either.
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