It appears I screwed up a LM7.1 campus production server by trying to add a windows partition for backup purposes with PowerQuest Drive Image 3. At first I created ok at the end of the disk, and DI3 saw that but would not write the image file (of Linux partitions) to that C: drive. I copied the contents of /dev/hda6 (/var) and /dev/hda7 (var/lib) to a scratch partition (/dev/hda10). Then I used a win98 bootup disk, and Partition Magic 5 to delete those partitions as a merged FAT32 partition. When I tried to reboot, it complained about a kernel panic with no init= set, and suggested passing it to Grub/Lilo. I am able to win98 boot into it, however even the LM7.1 bootup disk did not work (same error as regular bootup). I booted up with Tom's Root Boot disk, and I can mount the windows partition, but none of the Linux ones. I tried to mount the /boot partition with... # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt EXT2-fs: 03:0a: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted filesystems. I then tried... # e2fsck /dev/hda1 Filesystem has unsupported features. The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct superblock. Try using a different superblock size such as: [-b 8193] Still no luck. Ok, so using PM5 after I initially created the partitions with 'fdisk' was not a smart move (in hindsight), but how do I fix that now ? Is there another utility that could help ? Other suggestions ? Thanks... Dan.
