Re: [Testbed-admins] trying to image a drive and get "no superblock found"

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

I unzipped it over the top of the FC6 partition

imageunzip -s 2 or something like that...

I'll run the fsck and see what that does.  it does boot.

-Ben

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
>> [root@boss](2:42pm)#sudo ssh pc1 imagezip /dev/da0 - > FBSD62+FC8-STD.ndz
>> imagezip: BSD Partition 'a': No superblock found
>> Filesystem specific error in Slice 1, use -R1 to force raw compression.
>> * * * Aborting * * *
>> [root@boss](2:43pm)#
>>
>> to make this image I started first with FBSD62+FC6-STD.ndz then I
>> unzipped an FC8 image onto the FC6 partition and now I'm trying to
>> reimage the complete pair back to boss.  Did I mess up the
>> "superblock"?  and if so any idea how to fix it?
>
> What command did you use to unzip the FC8 part? Does it still boot the
> FC8 part?
>
> Not finding the superblock is probably just the first of many
> problems, but you can try booting into the admin MFS and then do an
> fsck on the freebsd partition.
>
> Lbs
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