Bill Studenmund  (wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov) wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Fabrizio Catalano wrote:
>> 
>> > On the same machine I have another disc (300MB) with NetBSD 1.3.2 up 
>> > and running.
>> 
>> Good. That'll make this easy.
>
>Still assuming that's true, try this first please.
>
>Boot in 1.3.2, and locate the new 1.4.1 partition - the one which shows up
>as an ext2fs when it's not. I'll assume it's sdXa below. Use what it
>really shows up as.
>
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXa count=1 seek=2
>
>The seek=2 says to skip 2 blocks (1 k) into the partition, and the count=1
>says write just one block.
>
>This should then fix things up, and all the install work you've done so
>far should show up right.
>
>Let me know how it goes!

Please let all of us know how it goes!  If this indeed fixed the problem 
I'll put some cond into Mkfs to do this when initializing a partition and 
this should take care of the problem.  Guess I'll also have to do the 
same thing with sysinst/mac68k too.

-bob