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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:47:44PM +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Lee Forrest wrote:
> >
> > > BL3 has an old version of e2fsck 
> > 
> > That doesn't work at _all_ on the e2fs filesystem created 
> > by my debian OS (mke2fs). 
> 
> Your debian probably created your ext2 filesystem with
> the sparse-super flag on.  The BL3 e2fsck pre-dates the
> sparse-super option.
> 
> > The superblock could not be read 
> 
> Yeah, that's what happens when the filesystem was formated
> with sparse-super on.
> 
> > I used debian to create the filesystem for uClibc too, 
> > and the BL3 doesn't work on it, either.
> 
> Same problem.  Next time you use Debian to format a
> filesystem, try turning off the sparse-super flag.
> Then it should work with BL3.

Thanks. I am tempted to copy my whole system to a (ramdisk? I have
128M RAM and 128M swap), re-format this partition, then copy the
ram disk to it. I could use the BL3 floppies or tomsrtbt or a generic
rescue disk if necessary.

Please let me know if that is a bad idea or wouldn't work. I've got
enough space on several partitions to store BL3 there for a bit.

This is from Rute:

A similar procedure for RAM devices is                                        
                         

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram0 count=1440 bs=1024                               
                      
mke2fs /dev/ram0                                                              
                      
mkdir ~/mnt                                                                   
                      
mount /dev/ram0 ~/mnt                                                         
                      
ls -al ~/mnt                                                                  
                      

When you are finished copying the files that you want into ~/mnt, merely run  
                         

umount ~/mnt                                                                  
                      

To dump the file system to a floppy or file, respectively, run:               
                         

dd if=/dev/ram0 of=/dev/fd0 count=1440 bs=1024                                
                      
dd if=/dev/ram0 of=~/file-floppy count=1440 bs=1024                           
                      

/quote

Lee

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