Re: fsck: CANNOT SEEK BLK: -1 (after changing the mainboard)

From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav (des_at_des.no)
Date: 11/07/03

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    To: itetcu@tecnik93.com
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:38:38 +0100

    itetcu@tecnik93.com writes:
    > The quick story: after a change of the MB from a GA-7VT600 1393
    > to a GA-7VT600-L, both with VIA Apollo KT600 / 8237 cipset, my
    > system's preen fsck can't find the superblock on partitions other that
    > / As far as I can say the fs where clean (note however that / was
    > mounted read-only AFAIR).

    You probably switched your disk from CHS to LBA mode or vice versa.

    DES 

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