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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