Re: root partition with xfs fails to boot correctly

["Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mánudagur  2. júlí 2001 00:07, Tilman Sauerbeck skrifaði:
> >   I did the same over here, without problems... and my root partition
> > is now
> > XFS.  However, I used a changed vanilla 2.4.5, and when I used the
> > 2.4.2/3
> > production kernels, I got the same errors as in this case.  The reason
> > was
> > LABEL mounted partitions.  The answer was to remove the LABEL= from
> > /etc/fstab and insert the partition names there instead.
>
> I don't use those labels.
>
How did you backup/restore the root fs?

Have you tried booting the system, in single user mode... that way it won't 
really matter if it doesn't find any partitions, as long as it finds the root 
partition (which lilo sets)?  There you could *trace* the boot script, and 
see where it goes wrong?


Orn