IIRC, the fsck program (actually, fsck_ffs) uses some floating point
operations.  It sounds off the top of my head that your copy was linked
against the normal libraries, rather than the ones that emulate fp.
You'll need to find the fp-emulation libraries for 1.2.1 somewhere (but
please forgive me I don't know where).

BTW, if you should ever get the `bad super block' message without the fp
error, it might mean just what it says - your super block is hosed.  In
that case you can always try one of the alternate super blocks (they were
all listed when you newfs'd or mkfs'd the partition).  And if you've lost
the list of super blocks that was printed, try block #32 - it seems that
32 is almost always an alternate superblock!

=09=09fsck -b 32 ...

On Tue, 13 May 1997, Christoph Ewering wrote:

> Hello !
>=20
> I have another problem with NetBSD on a 165c.
> Yesterday i installed the entire NetBSD 1.2.1 on a external disk,
> a played around with NetBSD on the PowerBook.
> Today every tool, boot loader, installer reports me errors about
> inappropriate filesystems.
> So I connected the disk to my Q700 and tried to mount it with NetBSD
> from my Quadra, but after typing fsck /dev/sd2a i got something about
> a bad super block and a float exeption.
>=20
> What is wrong with this fs?
> Are there any other tools to repair this?
> (HDSC Setup reports that the partition table is o.k.)
> And why could this happen ?
> I=ABve shutdown the system with shutdown now, sync, sync and reboot.
>=20
> Thanks,
> =09Christoph
>=20
> Christoph Ewering         eweri@uni-paderborn.de
> Husarenstrasse 48         Fon: 05254 12555
> 33104 Paderborn           www.uni-paderborn.de/Admin/eweri/
>=20
>=20
>=20

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