Re: Re: desperately searching for superblocks

2001-11-18 Thread blovett1
> From: Toby Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > OK, you say it's finding the device - sda. Normally a list > of partitions is printed at this point under the heading > "Partition check:". Is your > dmesg saying this? What does pdisk -l /dev/sda say? Nope, I've got absolutely nothing under the Partiti

Re: Re: desperately searching for superblocks

2001-11-18 Thread blovett1
> From: Michael Schmitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > WTF do you say swap is on sda4 above, then proceed to use > sda5 (your root fs) as swap space? It's not intentional-- that's just the error message I get back. If I try to mount the partition I get this: mount -t ext2 /dev/sda5 /mnt mount: /dev/s

Re: desperately searching for superblocks

2001-11-18 Thread Michael Schmitz
> I have an old-world power mac with swap on sda4, / on sda5, and MacOS on > sda6, and I've managed to screw up the filesystem horribly. I see from dmesg > that the drive is recognized, and I see from mac-fdisk that the partition > table is in fine shape. But none of the partitions are recogniz

desperately searching for superblocks

2001-11-18 Thread blovett1
Help me help me! The potato is angry! I have an old-world power mac with swap on sda4, / on sda5, and MacOS on sda6, and I've managed to screw up the filesystem horribly. I see from dmesg that the drive is recognized, and I see from mac-fdisk that the partition table is in fine shape. But none