Re: Redhat 9 - grub wont boot with XFS root fs after migration

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:36 23-4-2003 +0100, Gareth Blades wrote:
> Now when I try to boot into md0 I get a kernel panic saying it is unable to
> mount the ext3 filesystem.
> Why it is ext3?
>
> If I modify the grub boot parameters to specify the root filesystem type as
> xfs then when it boots I get an error 'XFS: bad magic number' and it stops
> loading. If I run xfs_repair on md0 then it finds no errors
XFS bad magic number sounds like stepping on the XFS superblock at the 
beginning of the fs.
You did install into the MBR instead of the partition right?
You modified the /etc/fstab to read xfs for the / fs?

cheers

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