Re: 2.6.25-git1/2 not seeing /dev/sda1 (XFS root) or /dev/sda2 (swap)partitions on a SATA drive

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Sun Apr 20 2008 - 23:20:23 EST


Sid Boyce wrote:
> 2.6.25 x86_64 boots fine as does -git1/2 boxes using reiserfs and ext3.
> With xfs it can't find these and drops into a shell.
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5000AAKS-_WD-WCAS85018679-part2 swap
> swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD5000AAKS-_WD-WCAS85018679-part1 /
> xfs defaults 1 1
>
> From my .config
> CONFIG_XFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_XFS_QUOTA=y
> CONFIG_XFS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_XFS_RT=y
>
> The other boxes are configure pretty much the same, but I can diff the
> .config's if required.

Does it not find the device, or does it not find the filesystem? What's
the relevant message? Does it enumerate the partitions it finds, and is
your partition in the list? Do you see the xfs module initialization
message go by before the error to indicate that it really did get loaded?

-Eric

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