Hi all,
I realise that this isn't really completely xfs related, and as such I
should be burned in hell, but you all must have done it to be able to
repair your machines in dire emergencies. (It looks like a devfs
problem to me).
How can I make a boot floppy, just in case I kill my whole machine,
(or so that I can boot from floppy, delete my root filesystem and make
it an xfs partition)?
My machine is ia32 running RedHat 7.0.90 (Fisher) with devfs 1.3.11,
mkinitrd-3.0.6-1 and the lovely 2.4.2-XFS booked out from CVS a couple
of days ago. Yes, I am running devfsd as '/sbin/devfsd /dev'.
'/sbin/mkinitrd initrd-2.4.2-XFS.img 2.4.2-XFS' just hangs and I can't
get anywhere. A strace -f on that command shows it hangs with:
[pid 13931] open("/dev/loop/0", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE
I don't view myself as a linux (or unix for that matter) novice, or I
wouldn't have gone down this path, but I appear to have got into just
beyond my depth here, and was wondering if any of you kind folk could
either help me or point me in the correct direction for assistance.
Cheers,
nic
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