[H-GEN] FreeBSD Bad Superblock

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Black" <gjb at gbch.net>
> Just to confirm: did the fsck complete successfully using the
> alternate super block?
>
> If the answer was "yes", then there was no point in starting
> over again.

It did complete successfully, but upon rebooting fsck reported the same
error(Bad Superblock) and wouldnt boot, not knowing what to do I
formatted(best option I could come up with at the time)

> Sounds as though your drive is on the way to heaven (and should
> be sent there as soon as you can manage that).

Yes I believe this to be true, as I managed to circumvent the problem by
setting the fstab not to check / with fsck on boot, BSD booted fine, but
while recompiling my Kernel(Forgot the damn soundcard module AGAIN, DUH!)
the computer froze, so I promptly took to the HDD with a brick.

Which brings me to my next question I wouldnt mind asking, I'm going to
rebuild from scratch tonight on another HDD and was wondering this: The DRM
modules are compiled with my Kernel, BUT, do I need to specify device
drm (or some such command) in my Kernel Configuration file before compiling
to enable DRM?
.
> And, to answer your other question, plenty of people here do run
> BSD systems.

This is good news, i'm sure this won't be the last time I will be screaming
for help and it's nice to know that this mailing list (which is a pleasure
to subscribe to) will be able to help me, I just hope that my question's and
explainations are good enough for people to make sense of :)

To anyone who hasn't tried BSD I strongly recommend you do, if someone like
me can build a stable fast system basically from scratch then I think anyone
can!

> Greg

Thanks Greg,
    Joe.


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