Upon emerging the latest gaming kernel (2.4.20-gaming-r5, if memory serves), customizing with genkernel --configure, and booting to it, I get a kernel panic saying that the magic number on root was bad. However... when I boot into 2.4.20-gaming-r4, xfs says nothing. Ideas? This xfs issue also happened with the latest kernel from ck-sources. The latest ac-sources works fine... I don't know where to go from this; I suspect perhaps some drastic xfs changes between these kernel codes? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: blocker -- serious kernel panic
are the configs for both kernels identical?
I can't promise that :) on filesystems, I built in support for XFS only, and I am pretty sure this is what I did on the other kernel. Most of the experimental code was disabled, iirc. Sorry I can't be of more help ;)
Can you try ck-sources [2.4.20] to see if this is a bug which comes from the CK sources side of things?
plasmaroo - same results occur on the 2.4.20 ck sources. I will attach the kernel configuration file I use when I leave the office.
Thanks. This probably is an upstream bug which comes over from the CK sources, we'll see if we can get this patched somehow... Can you please post a followup once you've attached your .config due to a bugzilla bug. Thanks.
Created attachment 18863 [details] Kernel Config Sorry 'bout the delay :) Tell me if I forgot to check anything (wouldn't I feel stupid...)
*ping* :-)
Well, as this is a ck-sources bug which we can't really do that much about, your best bet is to contact the LKML or Con Kolivas. I'm closing this bug as CANTFIX, can you please reopen this bug if you get any useful feedback? Thanks!
Plasmaroo: Understood. I have sent a report to LKML and SGI's XFS team. Marking as VERIFIED for now, and I will post more when I get it. Thank you all very much for your guidance!
First message sent today. A copy is included for reference: From: owen AT bardstown DOT com To: linux-kernel AT vger DOT kernel DOT org CC: linux-xfs AT oss DOT sgi DOTcom, kernel AT kolivas DOT org Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:18:00 GMT Subject: Kernel Panic on 2.6.0-test5 with XFS filesystem Upon an upgrade from the 2.4.22-AC4 series kernel to the 2.6.0-test5 kernel, a serious problem was encountered. A kernel panic occured, stating that the XFS magic number on the root partition was bad. However, 2.4.22-AC4 gave no errors and loaded fine. A bug was filed with Gentoo Linux, detailing this issue. The X86-Kernel team suggested that I follow up with LKML. References: <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30277> is the original bug report. <http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=18863&action=view> is a copy of the kernel config I used to build these kernels. <http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282> is a bug report filed against SGI's XFS team. This problem was encountered on: 2.4.20 kernels Con Kolivas built 2.6.0-test5 kernel Gentoo's 2.4.20-gaming-r5 kernel This problem was NOT encountered on: 2.4.22-ac4 kernel Any followup would be nice :) I have CC'ed the SGI XFS team and Con Kolivas. ***Please CC me on any followup reports. I am not suscribed.*** My sincerest apologies if this is a duplicate report. I STFW many times, but saw nothing similar. -o -- Owen Marshall Systems Administration, BISI (502)349-9444 x106
Actually... for you purists, this is technically NOTABUG =-) Apparently, if I don't compile ext2fs into the kernel, XFS isn't happy. It has no problems if I do that. Strange. Thanks for all your help.
Thanks for keeping in touch!
