Re: XFS latest changes, sb corruption?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Paul Blazejowski wrote:

> Yes, my LILO resides on /dev/sda2 which is the root partition with XFS
> filesystem.And i've been doing that for past 2 years or so without any
> problems.My MBR has NTLOADER and to avoid conflicts with it, i  choose to use
> lilo on my / partition.
>
> LILO version is 21.7.5 that shipped with Slackware 8.0.It always worked and i
> knew about the FAQ entry but it never applied in my case until recently.My
> guess is that there's been either a change in XFS or LILO that don't play
> together anymore and i get corrupted superblock on my root....Any comments?

My only comment is that I don't know how this ever worked... if it did, I
think you were just lucky.  :)  The XFS superblock signature / magic
number should be "XFSB" in the first 4 bytes on the partition, and they're
not there in your image - lilo has overwritten it.  I'm afraid that
you'll have to find another way to boot, XFS and lilo want to put data in
the same place.

-Eric