problems with installing YD on a new G4 60gig drive

[brad allison]

Nevermind.

It was erroring on /dev/hda17.  You can't have partitions past 16.

-b


On Wed, 15 May 2002, brad allison wrote:

> 
> I just reinstalled again and got the same problem:
> 
> 	fsck.ext2/dev/hda17:
> 	The superblock could not be read of does not describe a correct ext2 
> 	filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 
> 	filesystem (and not a swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock 
> 	is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative 
> 	superblock:  
> 	   e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> 
> So I tried that command "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hda15" and I get "Bad magic 
> number in super-block while tring to open /dev/hda15".
> 
> This is right out of the box.....as in a fresh install on a new box.  
> 
> Does YD have problems with large partitions sizes or something?
> 
> -b
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, brad allison wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I just got a new 900Mhz G4 and installed YellowDog on it. 
> > 
> > The install went without any problems, but when it rebooted it said it had 
> > a bad superblock for all my partitions.
> > 
> > This is a new machine and I did all my partitioning inside YellowDog, so 
> > they were all freshly formated.
> > 
> > Anyone else see this happen?
> > 
> > -b
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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