On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:

> Bill,
> 
> I tried as you suggested ('fsck_ffs -b 32 /dev/rsd1a'), but I got this:
> 
> | Alternate super block location: 32
> | /dev/sd1a (No such file in directory)Can't stat /dev/sd1a
> 
> When I do 'disklabel sd1' I get, among other stuff:
> 
> | disklabel: boot block size 0
> | disklabel: super block size 0
> | disklabel: warning, unused partition c: size 390696 offset 0

The "other stuff" might be interesting. Do you have a swap partition?

> Should I re-install all? Or may be something? Then, the installer
> normally created the devices. Tomorrow, I'll try to boot another time in
> single user mode, seeing if the error is repeated. Or does that have no
> influence?

Well, crashing while in mult-user mode does tend to damage the filesystem,
compounding the problem. I gather that this is a new install. If there's
no data to save, IMHO, starting from scratch is definitely called for.