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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jwp20406 From: jwp20406@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey Palmer) Subject: [386bsd] Second drive problems... losing disklabel Message-ID: <By42Bo.G02@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:28:33 GMT Lines: 53 Hello all, I just received a new hard drive, and am anxious to get it up and running under 386bsd. Unfortunately, I seem to be beating my head against a wall trying to get this thing to work. I created a disktab entry for my desired partitions, and attempted to disklabel the disk. Everything is fine and dandy, I can newfs the partitions nd even mount them, but when I reboot, it seems as though the disklabel gets lost somewhere. When I do a disklabel just from memory, it only gives me a single bogus partition. When I try to mount something on this drive directly after booting in this condition, I get the following error: kramer # mount /dev/wd1a /mnt /dev/wd1a on /mnt: Bogus super block If I do a disklabel -r wd1 at this point, I get the following: .... 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 15960 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 37) b: 33600 15960 swap # (Cyl. 38 - 117) c: 415380 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 988) d: 415380 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 988) g: 74340 341040 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 812 - 988) h: 291480 49560 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 118 - 811) which is just what I wanted... In fact, if I try to mount now, after the disklabel has been read into the kernel, everything works great... It just seems as though the disklabel is never being read in. I have looked through the FAQ, and didn't see anything helpful. I don't have a problem recognizing the drive, just getting it to load its information into the kernel. I am running on a Gateway 2000 486/50, with an ati graphics ultra, X up and running, recompiled kernel with everything (I thought). So, I guess I would really appreciate some help, if someone knows the answer to this (hopefully very easy) problem, please let me know. Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thanks! -- Jeffrey Palmer palmer@cs.uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------------ for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis