Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:13:34PM -0600, sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
>   | Since I last build a miniroot for sgimips, last December,
>   | I am now having the following problem:
>   | 
>   | mod80 (355)# newfs /dev/rvnd0a
>   | /dev/rvnd0a:    163840 sectors in 5120 cylinders of 1 tracks, 32 sectors
>   |         80.0MB in 6 cyl groups (917 c/g, 14.33MB/g, 3328 i/g)
>   | super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>   |      32,  29376,  58720,  88064, 117408, 146752,
>   | cg 0: bad magic number
>   | 
>   | I can't determine if this is a vnd problem or a newfs issue.
>   | I can mount a disk image previously (December) build and it fsck's fine.
>   | 
>   | Anyone recognise a problem I'm overlooking?
>   | 
>   | A synopsis of how I'm building the image follows.
> 
> How old is your newfs binary?
> What does  "ident /sbin/newfs" return?


I was under the impression that you use /dev/vnd* and not the raw 
devices with vnd? Or maybe I'm just confusing things further :)

Lund



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