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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Has anyone else tried booting from the install CD to into Arch with an XFS root?

For, me, it wouldn't work.  I needed to get back in after having the MBR wiped over by windows.  I did vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 but got a kernel panic about unknown block option.  I tried to explicitly state the initrd.img file in /dev/sdb1 but that didn't work.

Next I tried booting into the install system and from their chrooting into my own.  However, I couldn't mount any XFS drives.  It seems only reiser and ext2/3 were able to be read by the install environment.

Has anyone else had this?

Also, I think the message that comes up at the boot prompt is erroneous.  It says to type 'arch root=/dev/hdXY' to access your local install.  Typing this actually brings me into the install environment.  You have to type in "vmlinuz root=/dev/hdXY" to try and boot your installed system

Mr Green

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Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

I have used Arch Cd to chroot into broken install to fix broken bootloader no problem

as for XFS well I do not use it so cannot say if it works with it or not

search forums for broken boot / mbr or look at

Rescue_a_system_with_a_broken_boot_loader

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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Yeah, as I said, I tried chrooting, but the install/rescue CD doesn't seem to load XFS drivers so I can't mount the drives to chroot into, nor can I boot into the XFS local root drive using the CD kernel.

Mr Green

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Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Have you tried loading any of the addons ?

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Mr Green

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Registered: 2006-03-29

Posts: 465

Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Change rescue system cd, give it a try.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/recoveryispossible/

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fedaykin

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Registered: 2004-12-02

Posts: 25

Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Works for me with XFS using the Arch install CD, Archie, System Rescue CD (I've had a lot of experience with having to boot into a dead box).  I didn't do anything different than what they say in the Wiki though.

Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

Ahhh, thanks, the most obvious thing and I totally missed it

user

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Registered: 2006-03-29

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Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

what's missed?

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Eliatamby

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Registered: 2005-05-06

Posts: 80

Re: Rescue from CD doesn't work for XFS?

modprobe the filesystem driver