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Re: Root XFS partition

To: Jason Walker <unseen@xxxxxxxxx>, SGI XFS Mailing List <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Root XFS partition
From: Andrew Ho <andrewho@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 01:01:39 -0500
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012310029100.290-100000@surreal.localdomain>
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Jason Walker wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
>         I have XFS for a short time now, and just got around to making back 
> ups of all my data.  I finally have a 10gb filesystem (over several 
> partitions) for XFS, made all the filesystems, and went to boot....and it 
> wouldn't mount the XFS / partition. left me with the generic:
>
>         Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:45
>
>         I read on the FAQ that LILO now works with XFS (or vice-versa :) and 
> I searched the mailing lsit archives and only found old things about trying 
> to get  root XFS to mount, then later, issues with it being buggy...but I 
> didn't see anything about how to get XFS / to work (what does  "Could be 
> easier", from the FAQ,  mean, anyways? :)
>         Can anyone shed some light on this?  I would *love* to get this 
> working, thanks for your time.
>
>         RegEx/Jason Walker

03:45 that you mentioned is /dev/ttyrd.

I did not have any problem to mount / as xfs with linux-2.4.0.-test13-pre3 with 
/boot (ext2).

I made  the /boot partition (xfs), I have no luck to boot up this /boot 
partition with lilo.
Probably lilo is not support xfs as /boot partition at this moment.

Andrew Ho



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