Re: Lenny RC1: no XFS on /

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Quoting Walter Landry (wlandry@caltech.edu):
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I just tried installing Lenny RC1 amd64 (business card and kde) on a
> > Lenovo Thinkpad W500.  I made all of the filesystems XFS, including
> > "/" (I do not have a separate /boot partition).  Upon rebooting, I got
> > the message:
> > 
> >   RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
> >   List of all partitions:
> >   No filesystem could mount root, tried:
> >   Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,1)
> > 
> > When I reinstalled and made "/" ext3, it worked fine.
> 
> 
> I just tested a fairly basic install in a VirtualBox machine: x86 and
> a single XFS FS.
> 
> The installer used LILO as boot loader, as expected and....everything
> ended up working OK at the end.
> 
> Maybe someone could try to reproduce this on an AMD64 system ?
> 
> Walter, maybe you (just doing a simple install, with the "standard
> system" task only....

Sorry if I did not make it clear.  I did test the i386 installer, and
XFS on "/" did work.  It is only on amd64 that it does not.  I tried
again with just the "standard system" task and I got the same problem.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
wlandry@caltech.edu