Mike.....it's id'd as an ext2 (type x83) with 6,136,767 sectors from sector
11,631,123 to sector 17,767,889.
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Fieschko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 9:54 AM
Subject: [expert] can't mount root filesystem and can't fix it
>>>> "Alan" == Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>[snip]
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> Alan> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a
> Alan> correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it
> Alan> really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or
> Alan> something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you
> Alan> might try running e2fsk with an alternate superblock: e2fsk
> Alan> -b 8193 <device>
>
>[snip]
>
>Can you boot off a floppy and do
>
>fdisk [device]
>
>and print out (to console) the starting and ending points of the
>partition?
>
>Then quit fdisk _without_ _modifying_ _any_ _partition_.
>
>Are the values returned by this invocation of fdisk correct?
>
>--
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