On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Tommie Giles wrote:
> error: "Warning! running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem can cause SEVERE
> damage. Do you really want to continue?
>
> I got this error on boot after I boot from loadlin I setup on my windows
> partition. I have 2 hdd's, win95 et all on the master drive and Mandrake 5.3 on
> secondary drive. I usually boot from recovery floppy to gain access to
> secondary (Linux) drive, but thought loadlin would be nicer to deal with. No
> idea of the loadlin version, came on the Mandrake 5.3 cd... any thoughts on how
> to get rid of this one?
>
have you tried this format:
loadlin linux.img root=/dev/hda2 ro
?
it causes the root to be mounted read only for e2fsck to be able to run
bug
