date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:25:18 -0500
Subject: [debian-knoppix] Re: XFS and installing v3.2

I also experienced some problems that I have read on the list
regarding using xfs filesystem.

(a) some comments about kernel panic when booting after a
successful knx-hdinstall.. I'm pretty sure that is related to
not including a initrd.gz in the boot loader. I'm using grub
and not lilo, but I needed the "initrd /initrd.gz" in my
grub.conf.

(b) I tried many times the runlevel 1 to install on xfs filesystem..
but that still didn't help me. I actually manually tried to install
and
got the same problems. (boot with knoppix, make xfs, mount, cp
/KNOPPIX/)
and still locked up. What did work was cp -a /KNOPPIX/* to a
intermediate
ext2 mount and then installing from there instead of CD-ROM.
(not sure why.. I tried with and w/o dma)