Re: problems loading xfs kernel module in current daily netboot boot.img

On 9/10/06, Thomas Garner <thomas536@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While trying to install Debian on an 712/100 this weekend, I
> discovered that I could format partitions during install as xfs, but
> could not mount them.  I also found that I could not modprobe the
> module, and during attempts to mount, dmesg warns that "module xfs
> relocation of symbol xfs_iext_destroy is out of range (0x3ffeffeb in
> 17 bits)".  I was pxe booting the machine, using image found at
> http://people.debian.org/~kyle/d-i/hppa/daily/netboot/2.6/boot.img,
> which should be the 09/09/2006 version.  The uname says that the
> kernel version is 2.6.17-2-parisc, built Sat Aug 12 16:40:37 MDT 2006.
>  Is this a known issue?

It is, and has been fixed in newer kernels. Maybe the fix needs to be
backported to d-i...

HTH

T-Bone

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Thibaut VARENE
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