On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:58:35PM -0700, Eddie Atherton wrote:
I'm trying to install a clean Slackware 12.2 (2.6.27.7) under ESXi, and
can almost guarantee getting this error immediately after formatting the
root partition. It's happened 4 out of the 5 times I've tried, so far.
The sequence of commands, after digging through the install scripts,
that lead to this failure are just:
mkfs.xfs
mount
mkdir
That's bizarre. Can you provide a xfs_metadump image of the fs after
the shutdown has occurred?
I can try, but it's kinda difficult, as this happens in a VM, where I
don't have a filesystem to capture the data to, or any "communication"
to the "outside world" to transfer it out. But, hey, that's what
challenges are all about.