hi,
>>>>> "Neal" == Neal H Walfield <neal@walfield.org> writes:
Neal> Hi sounds like you need to create the filesystem with either
Neal> no features or sparse super blocks (see the -O switch to
Neal> mke2fs).
mke2fs -O sparse_super -o hurd /dev/hda12
This is the exact command that I ran from within linux to make the
partition.
prabhu