Well, yeah, sadly, I had the same problem, I had /dev/hda2 (root partition)
formatted XFS, but the kernel wasn't able to mount it... I am still
wondering what to do... to boot with an older SuSE distro (8.2, 9.0), and to
update the kernel somehow (there's plenty of updates available - that makes
me wonder if that wasn't a "rush release" - I don't have any excuse for the
SuSE team and I find NO explanation, whatsoever, for leaving the kernel
without XFS support)
I had LOTS of other problems, (no XFS support, slab.c kernel panic, grub not
installable, hunging at start, hunging at installation finish)
I am pretty upset and I feel like I have been let down by the SuSE team, I
wasn't expecting such a mess from a German company
I CAN'T believe that nobody used XFS in the whole BETA team - it seems
unbelievable!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Johnson"
Got 9.1 yesterday, managed to do a network install onto a secondary computer with no problems.
Tried it today on my main computer, upon the install screen was greeted by a message stating that my partitions were not readable by parted and nothing basically could be changed. This system did boot fine with 8.2.
Managed to get the system installed by switching to another terminal and then using "partprobe /dev/hda", the installation was then able to see /dev/hda's partitions fine. During install I let it download and install the newest updates, but on reboot and booting from hard drive I was greeted with a kernel panic as once again the 2.6 failed to see the partitioning on a master drive.
Kind of worried about updating whilst in the system, as last time I was not able to get back in, even via partprobe, as some modules could not be found. Also, noticed that during bootup when the hard drive is noticed, right below that it shows th partitions, however with /dev/hda it was showing a mazsize statement only.
Did try acpi off, no dma. Any known fix?
Thanks,
Matt
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