Re: 911 - Rescue!

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

"Orn E. Hansen" wrote:

>   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.

With all of the other things that need to be on the boot & driver disks,
there wasn't room for the xfs modules - it's in the second stage image. 
One thing you might be able to do is set up a network install, either
locally, or pointing out to the web?  I think there is a full install
tree on ftp.thebarn.com.

It might also be possible to add filesystem drivers to a new driver
disk, but I'm not certain - the driver disk only handles certain types
of drivers, and filesystems may not be an option...

There are also some people who have created root/boot XFS disks, I
believe - check either the News link or the mailing list archives.

Good luck!

-Eric

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