Bug 2250

Summary:	XFS file system hangs install
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Charles Kerr <charles>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	charles
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Charles Kerr 2002-04-29 17:10:28 UTC

Using the 1.1a iso x86 and 686 iso images, and doing a complete build from 
scratch on an AMD 1900XP system, 1GB memory, ABit KR7A motherboard, that had 
previously been running gentoo .9 with XFS.

Formatted the harddrive (two still using xfs), and on the bootstrap.sh, during 
the glibc build, it would lock (even other consoles would not respond).  
Repeated this five times.  Reformatted with ext3, and the bootstrap completed 
fine (as did the remaining build.

Comment 1 Troy Dack 2002-04-30 18:06:47 UTC

See this URL:
http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-announce/2002-April/000143.html

For a brief on the Gentoo, XFS and large quantities of memory.

Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-08 10:52:31 UTC

Hiya Charles, take a look at this bug report for a workaround.  I'm closing this
bug, as it will be fixed on our next CD and is a known issue.

Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-25 11:24:21 UTC

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.