From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 13 10:28:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12296 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:28:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (mcn-gw.sb.nova.org [209.31.146.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12285 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:28:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us) Received: from localhost (mnewell@localhost) by bigpuppy.newell.arlington.va.us (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01548 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:27:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:27:42 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Newell To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Bad superblock errors on Libretto Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG One of my co-workers and I have been receiving the following error on boot, both of us have Librettos: BAD SUPER BLOCK: VALUES IN SUPER BLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE This occurs after the systems have been up and running fine. It usually happens after several (in my case many) reboots. The file system cannot be checked, and any attempt to do so generates an even more corrupt file system. In my case I'd been running FreeBSD for a couple of days, then started running Windoze for about a week, then when I tried to boot the FreeBSD partition I got the is message. The file systems get badly corrupted (I had some _VERY_ intereting special files the last time this happened - as in directories changed to special files with really weird major/minor numbers). About the only thing to do is reload... :-(!! When this happened to me first I reformatted the partition as DOS and did a scandisk throuogh with surface scan; no media errors were found. No media error messages are ever logged, so I suspect it's not a media problem. The configuration is as follows: - Libretto 70CT, 32M RAM, 3.2Gb IDE hard drive - FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE - Drive parititioned 2GB for Windoze, 1GB for FreeBSD - Windoze '95 factory installed In each case the box ran for days or weeks with no problems, then this error occurs. There does not appear to be a way to recover the file system. Help!! :-0!! Much obliged, Mike +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike Newell | The opinions expressed herein | | Affiliation: | are mine. You can take them or | | Address: | leave them. Flames to /dev/null. | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Mike@Newell.arlington.va.us | http://www.newell.arlington.va.us | +--------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | "Peace. It's wonderful!" Father Divine. | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message