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To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net>
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Subject: Re: Superblocks getting trashed with -current 
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 1995 14:41:29 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>My root superblock was trashed again at this point.  No, it wasn't
>DOS, since the other times it happened, DOS never entered the picture.
>A quick look showed that most of the superblock was zeroed out (maybe 
>the first 1024 bytes).  I've got to go install some hardware for
>a customer right now, but I'll verify exactly how much data was
>munged when I get home later, and see if I can figure out what
>the few non-zero bytes might have been.  

Are you sure that your paritition information is correct?  It sounds
like your FreeBSD partition is overlapping the DOS one.

>--
>Mike Pritchard
>mpp@mpp.minn.net
>"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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