Re: XFS latest changes, sb corruption?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 13:02 24-3-2002 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>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.

He could try putting it onto the swap partition.

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.