Re: Recovering from an XFS crash

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 16:15, Glow Nair wrote:
> HELP..
> I would appreciate any help/hints etc. that I can
> get from SGI.. I've generally been very happy with
> SGI XFS 1.02
> 
> I made emergency boot disks.. however when my 
> disk crashed, it wont boot using the rescue
> disk
> 
> Can you help ?

The installer should warn you, but it doesn't... the XFS kernel is often
too big to fit on a boot floppy. :(

Try booting from the 1.0.2 CD with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt.

-Eric

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