gfranken Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 I've never ran into this problem before with prior versions of Mandriva Linux. I always have configured all my partitions during a Mandriva install as XFS type partitions (excepting the SWAP partition, of course). This has always worked fine. I tried to install Mandriva 2006 PowerPack Edition 3 times, and every time I got an error in the install process when the bootloader was being installed. Evidently, the first boot partition cannot be XFS. When I reinstalled and made the first partition Ext3 (with all the other partitions as XFS), everything installed perfectly. Has Mandriva sent out any notice of this, or anyone else posted about this? Oh, well, no big deal, as everything is now working well. [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfranken Posted November 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Whoops! Should have been titled XFS and Mandriva 2006, not NFS and Mandriva 2006. Gary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 Title edited for you :P As a side note, I've experienced quite a few problems with XFS recently. It was causing me all sorts of problems. XFS prefers files to be large, and when they are small, it kills your system using too much memory. Try using reiserfs instead, and see how you get on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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