From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Epiphany/1.0.7 Description of problem: If the root partition is xfs (starting the install process with 'linux xfs'), during the install bootloader step, anaconda stops responding. From looking at console messages, it seems to have done something, but possibly not completely written the boot blocks out (as the machine doesn't actually boot if you press reset). once / was changed to ext3, the install completed successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make / xfs 2. Install system 3. See system stop doing anything when installing bootloader Expected Results: It to work properly, with XFS, out of the box, Additional info:
I see the problem in FC2T2 and FC2T3. Install hangs when /boot and / are xfs. I think I was successful with / xfs and /boot ext3. Workaround: when install bootloader (grub) hangs -> switch to command prompt, install grub by hand, then kill grub process, which eats 98% CPU, switch back to install screen -> success! It can be grub bug.
This problem is still exists on the full FC2 release. Comment #1 from Milan "Would" work if he did list out the command to install grub by hand. I could still boot into FC2 using my FC1's grub and going into command line and typing out root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz initrd /boot/initrd.img etc..
This seems to not be a problem with FC3t1.