Re: Recovering from an XFS crash

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

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 ?

Updated mkbootdisk RPMs are here:

http://home.datacomm.ch/simix/XFS/rh-7.2/

Create bootdisk as usual, but use a different device:

mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0u1722 2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2

-Simon

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