Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdsu!flong
From: flong@sdsu.edu (Fred J. E. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: warning about 1.5.0 (root partition trashed)
Keywords: WARNING 1.5.0
Message-ID: <1990Jan3.084457.20171@sdsu.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 90 08:44:57 GMT
References: <13505@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: flong@sdsu.UUCP (Fred J. E. Long)
Organization: San Diego State University Math/Sciences Dept.
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In article <13505@fluke.COM> dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck) writes:
>
>Warning about 1.5.0 (maybe I did something wrong,
>	maybe I didn't......)
>
>I was able to extract/patch all the 1.5.0 postings
>to match the crc's except a few of the
>doc and man files, and have  built new library and kernel,
>mm, fs, and tools.
>
>Unfortunately, when I booted the new kernel, the superblock of my
>hard disk partition was no longer readable to
>1.5.0 and protected mode 1.3.  BE CAREFUL!
>

I'm having a similar problem.  I compiled libc.a and rebuilt the kernel
with seemingly no problems, but for some reason minix 1.5.0 says one
of my filesystems is bad, but works OK with the other partition.  After
trying bios_wini among other things, somehow the superblock on my "bad"
partition got cleared.  I had to use Norton Utilities to rebuild it by
hand.  I still don't know what's wrong.  I'm going to try using the
old libc.a from 1.3 and see what happens.

FL
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Fred J. E. Long	
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