Alternatively you
a) disable the initrd in grub.conf if you don't need it (works for me),
or
b) make a new initrd using mkinitrd after booting the xfs kernel, and
re-install grub, yet again :-).
neither of these involve the time-consuming re-compiling of the kernel,
so are a little quicker off the mark...
Kai.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gareth Blades [mailto:list.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 April 2003 17:41
> To: Seth Mos; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Kai Leibrandt
> Subject: RE: Redhat 9 - grub wont boot with XFS root fs after
> migration
>
>
> All sorted.
>
> The problem was that the initrd image from the SGI XFS boot
> CD was in ext2 format so it was trying to mount the root
> filesystem in ext2/3 aswell. If the grub parameter was added
> to specify the boot file system as XFS it tried loading the
> initrd as XFS which is where the superblock errors came from.
>
> Can you specify a root file system type and a different
> initrd file system type?
>
> We cured it by recompiling the kernel with all the drivers we
> needed at boot time compiled in so that we didn't need to use
> initrd and therefore could specify the root fs as XFS without
> problems.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Seth Mos [mailto:knuffie@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 14:10
> > To: Gareth Blades; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Kai Leibrandt
> > Subject: RE: Redhat 9 - grub wont boot with XFS root fs after
> > migration
> >
> >
> > At 14:04 23-4-2003 +0100, Gareth Blades wrote:
> > >Yes I did install grub in (hd0) which is the MBR. I did try
> > >installing it into (hd0,0) later but I have since run
> xfs_repair so
> > >if there were any problems it should have fixed it.
> >
> > Did GRUB install the bootloader in both disks in the raid 1 set?
> >
> > I still use lilo with my raid 1 configs and are unfamiliar
> with GRUB.
> > It doesn't sound like you are doing anything wrong.
> >
> > The difference is that with LILO you specify that
> boot=/dev/md0 and it
> > will then install the bootloader in the mbr of both disks.
> >
> > If the bootloader ends up in the wrong place you will
> notice this as a
> > corrupt superblock on the XFS filesystem since they both want to go
> > into block 0 of the partition/drive.
> >
> > Cheers
> > --
> > Seth
> > It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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