Re: 911 - Rescue!

[Simon Matter <Simon.Matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>]

"Orn E. Hansen" schrieb:

>   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.
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>   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.

I didn't try this but usually you can use the bootdisks as rescue disks using
'linux rescue' at the boot prompt. You don't need a xfs kernel module since xfs
is included in the kernel.

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>   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?

Why don't you create a bootdisk for your system? It's easy, you just have to
over format the disks. I have built RPMS for that reason. Find them at
http://home.datacomm.ch/simix/XFS/ . You can find instructions to use it in the
archives of this list.

-Simon

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