* Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> At 11:17 1-1-2003 +0100, A. L. Meyers wrote:
> >The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> >that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user.testing as well.
> >Happy New Year!
>
> Same to you!
>
> >Was able to format the / partition /dev/hda2 as xfs and
> >successfully tar back all of the files. That xfs / partition was
> >mountable etc. as well from the 2nd HD, /dev/sda2. Was able to
> >configure and run lilo.
>
> Did you per chance install lilo in the partition instead of the
> MBR? If you do, lilo will overwrite the XFS superblock which lives
> at block 0 and thus making it impossible to mount the filesystem.
>
> running xfs_repair will fix your filesystem by using one of the
> secondary super blocks. But though shall not install lilo on a
> xfs_partition.
>
> Afaik you can install lilo on your swap partition. People have
> reported this to work.
>
> Cheers
Thanks for the advice, Seth. lilo is on the MBR of /dev/hda. lilo
does seem to allow installation on the swap partition /dev/hda3 but
gives me an error message saying that /dev/hda3 would not be the right
place.
Followed all your suggestions but, alas, exactly the same result.
Here is some of the relevant output during the boot process which
results in having to press the reset button:
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:
EIP:
EFLAGS:
Process swapper
Call trace:
Code:
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Have left out the details from CPU to Code.
Suggestions welcome.
Lucien
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