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- From: jwp20406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Palmer)
- Subject: [386bsd] Second drive problems... losing disklabel
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:28:33 GMT
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- Hello all,
-
- I just received a new hard drive, and am anxious
- to get it up and running under 386bsd. Unfortunately, I seem
- to be beating my head against a wall trying to get this thing
- to work. I created a disktab entry for my desired partitions,
- and attempted to disklabel the disk. Everything is fine and dandy,
- I can newfs the partitions nd even mount them, but when I reboot,
- it seems as though the disklabel gets lost somewhere. When I
- do a disklabel just from memory, it only gives me a single bogus
- partition. When I try to mount something on this drive directly
- after booting in this condition, I get the following error:
-
- kramer # mount /dev/wd1a /mnt
- /dev/wd1a on /mnt: Bogus super block
-
- If I do a disklabel -r wd1 at this point, I get the following:
-
- ...
- 8 partitions:
- # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
- a: 15960 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 37)
- b: 33600 15960 swap # (Cyl. 38 - 117)
- c: 415380 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 988)
- d: 415380 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 988)
- g: 74340 341040 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 812 - 988)
- h: 291480 49560 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 118 - 811)
-
-
- which is just what I wanted... In fact, if I try to mount
- now, after the disklabel has been read into the kernel, everything works
- great... It just seems as though the disklabel is never being read in.
- I have looked through the FAQ, and didn't see anything helpful. I don't
- have a problem recognizing the drive, just getting it to load
- its information into the kernel.
-
- I am running on a Gateway 2000 486/50, with an ati graphics ultra,
- X up and running, recompiled kernel with everything (I thought).
-
- So, I guess I would really appreciate some help, if someone knows
- the answer to this (hopefully very easy) problem, please let me know.
- Sorry if this is a FAQ.
-
- Thanks!
-
-
-
-
- --
- Jeffrey Palmer palmer@cs.uiuc.edu
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