Re: Recovering from an XFS crash

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

Mike Burger schrieb:
> 
> What's wrong with just using the BOOT kernel, which fits just fine on a
> floppy?

It doesn't fit on a floppy if you have an SCSI system. The initrd gets
too big.

-Simon

> 
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Simon Matter wrote:
> 
> > Eric Sandeen schrieb:
> > >
> > > 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. :(
> >
> > The kernel is too big to fit on a standard 1.44M floppy, but on most
> > machines you can overformat the disks so the kernel will fit without any
> > problem. I have built fixed mkbootdisk RPM's for RH-7.1 but I didn't for
> > 7.2 until now. If I find some free time I will rebuild packages for 7.2
> > and kindly ask Eric to put it on oss/contrib toghether with my newest RH
> > XFS kernel 2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2.
> >
> > -Simon
> >
> > >
> > > Try booting from the 1.0.2 CD with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt.
> > >
> > > -Eric
> > >
> > > --
> > > Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> > > sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.
> >
> >