Subject: Re: Kernel panic during reboot (recovery)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: David Chalmers <david.chalmers@vcp.monash.edu.au>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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Date: 31 Jan 2002 10:06:51 -0600
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On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 00:46, David Chalmers wrote:
> Hi
> 
> After some trouble with a machine running Redhat 7.1 with SGI-XFS-1.01
> we get the following message.  Is all lost? Can I recover this?

> XFS: log mount/recovery failed

Hi David - 

I don't recall offhand what type of recovery changes have been made
since 1.0.1... that was quite a while ago.  You might try a more recent
kernel*, and see if recovery goes better.  As a last resort, you could
use a rescue disk and a recent xfs_repair with the "-L" option to zero
the log - of course you will lose anything in the log, which could cause
file/data loss.

Let's see if anyone else has better suggestions before you try that
drastic step...

-Eric

*booting the 1.0.2 installer in "rescue" mode will get you a 2.4.7
kernel, for example.

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Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.