Re: corrupted partition with grub in hda1

[christian mueller <christian.mueller1@gmx.de>]

Hi,

on 2002-12-07 7:09:02 George Georgalis wrote:
> XFS: bad magic number
> XFS: SB validate failed
> Kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:01
> 
> Looks like I blew it. Trying to get grub installed, I must have installed
> it on the root
> partition not the MBR, corrupting the fs in the process.
> 
> So is there a fix? How?

There are 2 Superblocks on the partition.
Use 'xfsrepair' (included in the xfsprogs-pck) to fix this.
It should find the second SB and recover from that.
The partition has to be unmounted for this action, of course.


-chris

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