[H-GEN] FreeBSD Bad Superblock

[Three Blokes]

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Good Afternoon All!

    I recently decieded to give FreeBSD a go, after downloading and
installing it I found the setup/software installation system to be a breeze,
and promptly fell in love with it.

I installed X, Gnome2 and all my favourite applications, configured a few
things and then the bombshell hit: Bad Superblock on /dev/ad2sla1(my root
partition).
It suggested I run fsck manually, when doing this I found fsck recognised
the bad superblock and used the Alternate Superblock to check the partition,
but DIDNT FIX THE SUPERBLOCK, a search of google didn't turn up any clues,
so I formatted and started the whole process again.

The second time round was more successful, installed many more applications
than I had the first time, cvsup'ed my sources and compiled a new base
system, installed that and recompiled a custom Kernel(By this stage I was
really excited, i'd never managed to do that sort of thing on my own
before!!!), but I had made a mistake, I hadnt compiled in bpf support and my
dhclient was broken, I changed my config file, recompiled my kernel source
and installed it, upon reboot my heart sank to the bottom of my stomach -
Bad Superblock on /dev/ad2sla1.

Now to my point: I assume this is due to this poor excuse of a harddrive I
was given flaking out on me and wiping the superblock which I assume I will
never be able to rectify, i'm only using this HDD as a test platform and
will move BSD on to a proper drive when i'm happy that it does everything I
need but for now is there some way I can make the kernel use the alternate
superblock and mount the bloody partition anyway, at the moment when fsck
detects the fault rc terminates and my root partition(and the rest of the
system) doesnt get mounted/booted.

Any suggestions more than appreciated(Does anyone on here actually use
bsd??, I hope this isnt out of the scope of this mailing list, as it's a
Unix system, but if it is I apologise and will discontinue this thread as
soon as I am informed)

Cheers,
            Joe



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