From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 13 07:42:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA20739 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 07:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jh2.tor.servtech.com (jh2.tor.servtech.com [204.181.8.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA20734 for ; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 07:42:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by jh2.tor.servtech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA00233; Sun, 13 Jul 1997 06:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 06:41:18 -0400 (EDT) From: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com To: Doug White Subject: Re: Superblocks and Magic numbers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk need to make sure you're trying to mount the block device /dev/wd0s1a >(or whatever partition you're trying to boot) in /etc/fstab. /dev/rwd0 >is the raw disk device; the first few blocks ara your boot blocks and are >certainly not a filesystem :) > >If this doesn't make sense, post your /etc/fstab and we'll make sure it's >correct. I assume this error from fsck comes up on bootup. > i dont get as far as fstab, I cant boot the drive even though I can mount /dev/w d0s1 if i do it myself. wd0s1 is the actual root partition, although if i read t he disklabel or fsck wd0 | wd0a it isnt the same as wd0s1. I am now running from another HD , albeit small, and really want to recover my main drive. I am tempt ed to beg list members to telnet to my box and fix my drive :) ---------------------------------- E-Mail: isis@jh2.tor.servtech.com Date: 13-Jul-97 Time: 06:41:21 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------