Re: kernel panic with Debian sarge 2.4.18 SMP and xfs

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 11:17 1-1-2003 +0100, A. L. Meyers wrote:
>The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>that has been posted to gmane.linux.debian.user.testing as well.
>
>Happy New Year!

Same to you!

>Was able to format the / partition /dev/hda2 as xfs and successfully tar
>back all of the files.  That xfs / partition was mountable etc. as well
>from the 2nd HD, /dev/sda2.  Was able to configure and run lilo.

Did you per chance install lilo in the partition instead of the MBR? If you 
do, lilo will overwrite the XFS superblock which lives at block 0 and thus 
making it impossible to mount the filesystem.

running xfs_repair will fix your filesystem by using one of the secondary 
super blocks. But though shall not install lilo on a xfs_partition.

Afaik you can install lilo on your swap partition. People have reported 
this to work.

Cheers

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Seth
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