911 - Rescue!

["Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@gamma.telenordia.se>]

  I was in neat position the other day, that I noticed a upgrade for my MB 
and installed it.  The consequences was, that Windows 2K crashed ... and 
destroyed the main drive partition, which it resided on.  This called for 
reinstallation of Windows, a new boot sector and all the usual stuff.  
Annoying, but it wasn't a problem until I needed to boot my Linux system, 
with the root an XFS file system.

  Now, here is when I really needed to be able to call 911 ... so I went onto 
oss.sgi.com and found release 1.0.1... unfortunately I don't have CD burner 
so I looked for boot disk and driver disk... and I found it, so I thought my 
days were now made easy.  In with the boot disk, 'linux dd' added a driver 
disk... in with the drivers... CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console, ALT-F2 for a new 
console, and modprobe xfs ... oobs, no go.  So, I looked over the list of 
drivers ... but there was no xfs driver there.

  The above happens a lot, people's drives get crashed and a new setup is 
needed, etc.  And 911 rescues is needed... and the availability of CD roms 
(like here) isn't that great... isn't it possible to fit xfs driver on the 
driver disk?


Orn