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From: greg@viewlogic.com (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Need help with disk partition problems
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.173449.1221@viewlogic.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:34:49 GMT
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Hi there,

I posted a message a day ago about problems with
Shoelace hanging while trying to boot Minix on the
2nd partition of my hard disk.  I read the notice
about partitions created with V1.3 mkfs and decided
to try to fix the odd-sector problem.

My DOS partition ends on sector 15910 and the Minix
partition starts on partition 15912.  It looks like
Shoelace expects the partition to start at sector
15911.  I simply used fdisk to move the partition
one sector down.  I think this was a bad thing to
do (admittedly I don't know a lot about this kind
of stuff).  Anyway, that didn't work (root FS 
corrupted), so I changed it back.  It still doesn't
work!

The super block listing has all zeroes in the entries.
Is there any way I can restore the super block of the
file system?

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

-- 
Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)|"This is a fragile ball we are living on; 
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.    |it's a miracle and we are destroying it.."
293 Boston Post Road West  |Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil               
Marlboro, MA 01752  (greg@Viewlogic.COM)