On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:

> 	Correct. The magic number is still wrong, though it appears to
> contain a large number instead of 0.

Have you checked to see if the magic is written in reverse endianness?


> > nigel> 1) The ide_read code is bad.
> > nigel>    Unlikely because, if I comment out the magic-number check,
> > nigel>    ufs_open() reads and gets the diinodes, lists the files,
> > nigel>    and seems to have a good attempt at reading the file data.
> > 
> > Maybe this. A kernel isn't booted up from a partition which is made with 
> > a recent sysinst.  It seems same in the case of SCSI disk.
> 
> 	Possible. It could be that OS X's 'newfs -O' doesn't in fact
> create an old-style filesystem

It should....


> > Temporary, why don't you comment out the magic-number check?
> 
> * With libsa/ufs.c, it fails a few 4K reads into parsing the fs stuff.
> 
> * With the Booter's old ufs_read.c, it locates the directory's inode,
>   locates the kernel, and gets a few K into reading it in before it
>   reads past the end of the partition.

Hmm...  That's odd.


David

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