Some random thoughts! Florian, have you given the logical block offset end extent in 2048 byte blocks or 512 byte blocks??? Have you tried using the IRIX sash to boot the test CD... this may give better error messages? Alex Owen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org