On 4/12/06, Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17@duke.edu wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 at 7:05pm, Nick Smith wrote
the first time i tried to install centos on my fileserver it detected my reiserfs drives but then didnt give me a kernel to actually access them - strike one
Err, investigating whether upstream supports reiser would have been a good first move.
Yeah, never thought i had to, every other distro ive tired has it, and it manages small files better than ext3, but i know now.
now im trying centos on my mail server, wipe the drives, created a mirrored raid array from the setup, (took over 14 hours to format and
That's *extraordinarily* slow, as in something seems very bad.
the drives are in perfect condition, ran the previous OS without any problems, they are almost new.
sync) finally finished the install AND IT DIDNT WRITE THE BOOT RECORD! when it rebooted i got my grub menu from GENTOO! - strike two,
I've had occasional problems with grub not getting properly installed. It's easy to fix. Put in the first CD, and boot with 'linux rescue'. Once it's mounted your install, 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' and 'grub-install /dev/sda' and/or just follow those instructions you mentioned.
cool, ill give it a try right now, thanks for the quick reply!
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