Hand editing grub is supposed to be a no-no.   I have no idea why.
I used a graphical grub editor the last time I got in trouble with grub 
and that worked fine - no drama.

Dave

On 5/6/2015 1:21 PM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 06.05.15 12:01, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> So I have added it manually to /boot/grub/grub.cfg on the normal,
>>> default=0 entry.
>> I did that only to the normal boot, not to the recovery entry.  And now
>> the drive refuses to e2fsck at either the default superblock or the
>> suggested -b 8193 option e2fsck suggests.
> OK, assuming you're e2fsck-ing because the default boot now doesn't
> work, have you tried booting the recovery entry, and undoing the
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg hand-edit, to see if the drive then behaves?
>
>> So, on a fairly new toshiba drive, what would be a good superblock
>> address?
> NDI, but trying on my little Western Digital 320 GB drive, I get:
>
> # dumpe2fs /dev/disk/by-uuid/18cb718f-4e16-4e63-a0cb-eb10a1dc3607 | grep -i 
> superblock
> dumpe2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>    Primary superblock at 1, Group descriptors at 2-3
>    Backup superblock at 8193, Group descriptors at 8194-8195
>    Backup superblock at 24577, Group descriptors at 24578-24579
>    Backup superblock at 40961, Group descriptors at 40962-40963
>    Backup superblock at 57345, Group descriptors at 57346-57347
>    Backup superblock at 73729, Group descriptors at 73730-73731
>    Backup superblock at 204801, Group descriptors at 204802-204803
>    Backup superblock at 221185, Group descriptors at 221186-221187
>
> That's nothing like the old days, when I used to see numbers like:
> 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
>
> You seem to have a fair crop of gremlins, Gene. Have they all been holed
> up over winter, and now smelled spring?
>
> Erik
>
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