Well, I don't think this is going to help much. The output is
now:
XFS mounting filesystem sda1
XFS: failed to read root inode (990)
This is using the new kernel 2.6.0. I also tried with a 64bit
compiled verion of mount and that doesn't help.
Scott
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:37:20AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Unfortunately that message doesn't give us much to go on...
>
> You might try xfs_repair (possibly with -n to not actually -do- anything)
> to see if it gives any info about problems on the filesystem.
>
> Otherwise, find this code in xfs_mount.c:
>
> /*
> * Get and sanity-check the root inode.
> * Save the pointer to it in the mount structure.
> */
> error = xfs_iget(mp, NULL, sbp->sb_rootino, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL, &rip, 0);
> if (error) {
> cmn_err(CE_WARN, "XFS: failed to read root inode");
> goto error3;
> }
>
> and change the cmn_err line to say:
>
> cmn_err(CE_WARN, "XFS: failed to read root inode (%d)", error);
>
> so we can at least see what error was returned from xfs_iget -
> that might be a hint.
>
> -Eric
>
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Scott Ransom wrote:
>
> > On 17 December 2003 04:50 pm, Nathan Straz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:14:25PM -0500, Scott Ransom wrote:
> > > > mount: Unknown error 990
> > >
> > > Check dmesg for errors.
> >
> > Ah. Forgot to add this. Sorry:
> >
> > XFS mounting filesystem sda1
> > XFS: failed to read root inode
> >
> > Scott
> >
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