Subject: Re: hard disk problem
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Paulo Aukar <ptaaukar@terra.com.br>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/13/2006 13:37:56
Hi, David.
 Thanks a lot for all informations. I'll burn a 3.0 cd and try again.
 Best regards.
 Paulo

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:23:34 +0000
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 11:22:27PM -0200, Paulo Aukar wrote:
> > Hellow Friends,
> >  I'm trying to install NetBSD on an old laptop Compaq 1220 (chip Cyrix MMX 200). No problem with the installation (of a release 1.6.1) but when the machine first start I receive the following message: 
> >  /dev/rdw0a: BAD SUPERBLOCK: VALUES SUPERBLOCK DISAGREE WITH THOSE IN FIRST ALTERNATE
> >  RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY 
> >  I know the disk insn't original and was changed recently (it also isn't a new one).
> >  I'd like to understand what is going on. am I losing my disk?
> >  Any help is welcome. Thanks in advance.
> >  Paulo
> 
> Possibly you've managed to get overlapping partitions.
> Either that or netbsd just doesn't like writing to the disk,
> or maybe the system powered off before the last write finished.
> 
> The main superblock is 8k down the partition (size 8k) and the first
> alternate folows it immediately.
> 
> However I'd actually suggest trying to install a newer version.
> Sysinst in netbsd 2.1 and 3.0 is a lot less user hostile.
> 
> 	David
> 
> -- 
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>