Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g112W2Z19800 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:32:02 -0800 Received: from methyl.vcp.monash.edu.au (methyl.vcp.monash.edu.au [130.194.217.45]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g112Vtd19778 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:31:56 -0800 Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by methyl.vcp.monash.edu.au (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA30716; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:41:09 +1100 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: methyl.vcp.monash.edu.au: david owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:41:09 +1100 From: David Chalmers X-Sender: To: Eric Sandeen cc: David Chalmers , Subject: Re: Kernel panic during reboot (recovery) In-Reply-To: <1012493211.20484.6.camel@stout.americas.sgi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 1558 Lines: 47 Hi again, Thanks to Eric Sandeen for his reply. I found that by mounting the disk in another machine and using xfs_repair (without the -L option) I was able to repair the disk. On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric Sandeen wrote: > 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. > > -- > Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs > sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc. > > _____________________________________________________________________________ David Chalmers Lab: 9903 9110 Victorian College of Pharmacy Fax: 9903 9582 381 Royal Pde, Parkville, Vic 3053 http://synapse.vcp.monash.edu.au Australia David.Chalmers@vcp.monash.edu.au _____________________________________________________________________________