I went into OS2 and used e2fsck on the partition and fixed the structure. I now have two questions regarding this incident:
Why didn't Linux fix the file system at boot? Why did I have to do it from OS2? When I booted back into Linux I got /dev/hda5 reached maximal mount count, check forced What does this mean? Jens B. Jorgensen suggested booting from a rescue diskette and running e2fsck. I have a boot floppy but not a rescue diskette. How do I create a rescue diskette? > > > I had my system hang last night while running a statistical process. I > > used Ctrl-Alt-Delete to > > reboot. Now I get a kernel panic. > > > > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted ....... > > > > HPFS: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS ........... > > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 > > > > Does 03:05 mean 3rd harddisk, 5th partition? Linux is on Harddisk 1, > > partition 05. > > 03:05 means the device with major number 3, minor number 5. This is in fact > /dev/hda5. > > > Other things I have tried. > > > > Booting from floppy, same error. > > > > I have OS2 on my system as well. I dualboot to DOS and try the Debian > > install CD, but I get > > > > boot from dos install > > ran out of input data ---system halted > > > > When I was compiling a kernel before I was able to use this to reset lilo > > but now it won't > > work. > > > > I have ext2-os2 so I should be able to read my linux partitions from OS2, > > but I am not able to > > read the Linux partition. > > > > Any suggestions on how to solve this problem? > > Boot the rescue disk. After you get to the menus go down all the way to the > option to exit to a > shell. At the shell prompt run: 'e2fsck /dev/hda5' to fix the file system. > > Good luck! > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
