Re: bootloader issue

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Thanks!  For now I'm going to assume that the super block issue was an 
artifact of my wacky HEAD / 1.6.1 combo install.  If I see it again though 
I'll try this out.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Volker A. Brandt" <vab%bb-c.de@localhost>
To: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> ..does not fix the super block issue.  fsck_ffs complains about the same
> issue but doesn't repair it.  Not sure how to correct this.  The -b option
> looks intriguing but I'm not sure what block number I would need to 
> supply:

You should be able to run "newfs -N" on the file system.  That should
print out the fs metadata without really doing anything to the disk.
Note that usually block #32 is the first alternate superblock.


Regards -- Volker
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