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List:       linux-xfs
Subject:    Re: not a valid block device
From:       Steve Lord <lord () sgi ! com>
Date:       2001-02-27 21:17:35
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Did you build SGI partition table support into your kernel? Down at the
bottom of the filesystems menu in the kernel config interfaces is a
partition types menu, in here you can add SGI partition support. I suspect
the kernels we ship do not have it on.

Steve

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am in a bind, and I feel like I am really close to a solution, but I can't
> wrap my brain around it.  Anyways, here is my situation.  I removed two
> disks off of an Indigo2.  They were formatted with the SGI XFS filesystem.
> I have a RedHat 6.2 system that I needed to put the disks onto.  I followed
> all of the instructions at http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/pr_rpm.html,
> and everything went smoothly.  I rebooted with the XFS kernel, and I don't
> receive any error messages.  I load the kernel module for my SCSI adapter,
> and everything works fine.  I used fdisk to get a look at the partition map
> for the drives, and they look like this:
> 
> Script started on Tue Feb 27 15:03:29 2001
> [root@afni arnold]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 10 heads, 320 sectors, 11201 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 3200 * 512 bytes
> 
> ----- partitions -----
>    Device  Info      Start       End   Sectors  Id  System
> /dev/sda8               2     11201  35839574   a  SGI xfs
> /dev/sda9               0         1      4096   0  SGI volhdr
> /dev/sda11              0     11201  35843670   6  SGI volume
> ----- bootinfo -----
> Bootfile: /unix
> ----- directory entries -----
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> 
> 
> Script started on Tue Feb 27 15:04:23 2001
> [root@afni arnold]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 10 heads, 218 sectors, 8188 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2180 * 512 bytes
> 
> ----- partitions -----
>    Device  Info      Start       End   Sectors  Id  System
> /dev/sdb8               2      8188  17845904   a  SGI xfs
> /dev/sdb9               0         1      4096   0  SGI volhdr
> /dev/sdb11              0      8188  17850000   6  SGI volume
> ----- bootinfo -----
> Bootfile: /unix
> ----- directory entries -----
> 
> Command (m for help): q
> 
> So, I can see the disks.  However, when I try to mount them, my system return
> s
> the error:
> 
> [root@afni arnold]# /bin/mount -t xfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/disk2
> mount: /dev/sda8 is not a valid block device
> 
> an lsmod shows:
> 
> [root@afni arnold]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> vfat                   13397   0  (autoclean)
> fat                    39567   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
> xfs                   429502   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> pagebuf                42047   0  (autoclean) [xfs]
> aic7xxx               140890   0 
> 3c59x                  24785   1  (autoclean)
> es1371                 27339   0 
> soundcore               6614   5  [es1371]
> ac97_codec              8448   0  [es1371]
> 
> For documentation purposes, here is my kernel version:
> [root@afni arnold]# uname -a
> Linux afni 2.4.0-XFS_BETA_4 #1 Tue Nov 28 08:08:58 CST 2000 i686 unknown
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone might have.

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