Seth Mos wrote:
> At 18:09 26-4-2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >Hi *,
> >
> >I compiled a kernel 2.4.3 with linux-2.4.3-xfs-cvs-04022001.patch on a
> >Ultrasparc 10 with xfs as module.
> >Everything works fine on the first look. I can make a filesystem on my
> >external Raid box and mount the filesystem.
> >But after rebooting the machine the partition table is lost:
> >
> ><6>sym53c875-1-<9,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50.0 ns, offset 16)
> ><4>SCSI device sdd: 320155648 512-byte hdwr sectors (163920 MB)
> ><6> sdd: unknown partition table
> >
> >When I call fdisk /dev/sdd it wants to generate a new sun disk label.
> >Is it possible that this effect is caused by XFS?
>
> A (uneducated) guess would be that it would have somthing to do with XFS
> writing it's superblock on sector 0 of the partition?
> Does the sun disklabel expect something here?
> This is the reason you can't install lilo on a XFS partition.
Yes possibly... Sven did you mkfs.xfs /dev/sdd? or a partition? /dev/sdd1
for example?
>
>
> Bye
>
> --
> Seth
> Every program has two purposes
> one for which it was written and
> another for which it wasn't
> I make the last kind.
--
Russell Cattelan
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Digital Elves inc. -- Currently on loan to SGI
Linux XFS core developer.
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