[H-GEN] FreeBSD Bad Superblock

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-06-01, Three Blokes wrote:
> From: "Greg Black" <gjb at gbch.net>
> > 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.

Some people think you should dismantle them and use the pretty
things inside as playthings, but your solution was probably
equally satisfying.

> 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?

The generic answer is to look in /sys/i386/conf/LINT for the
example relating to the thing you're interested in and see what
it shows.  If needed, cut and paste from LINT into your own
config file.

Some things need to be included in the kernel; many work as
modules that will be compiled in any case and dumped in the
modules directory when you install the kernel.  From there, they
will be autoloaded.  The precise situation depends on the item
in question -- for this case, I don't have the answer at hand
but you should be able to figure it out from the above info.

If that fails, try searching the FreeBSD web site, in any of the
documentation links, and you should get more information.  The
other good source of help with general FreeBSD questions is the
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list.

> > 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 :)

It's always worth asking questions, although it's often faster
to find the answers for yourself -- the trick is learning how to
find them and that's something we can help with.  If you can get
to a meeting, that's also often a useful way of getting quite a
bit of stuff covered in one session.

Greg

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