John....nope, that's not the problem.
Alan
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi....I'm writing this in outlook express on my NT box. Why?! Because my
> > Mandrake 6.1 root filesystem won't mount (so Mandrake won't boot) and won't
> > even return enough info to e2fsk when it's run, to get worked on. Here's
> > what it says (I sure wish I could paste this instead of typing it):
> >
> > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> > filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
> > is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsk with an alternate superblock:
> > e2fsk -b 8193 <device>
> >
> > ....so when I run (from tomsrtbt or Peanut, I've tried both) 'e2fsk -b 8193
> > ssda7' (or 16385 or 24577....etc.) I get exactly the same error message as
> > above. I've run the sequence of possible alternate superblock locations up
> > to a factor of 21, with no luck, just the same error message each time.
> >
> > So does anybody have any suggestions on what further staeps I might take to
> > attempt to recover this partition?
> >
> >From any valid linux boot / rescue disk (Tom's or Peanut) do an
> "fdisk" and see what your partitions are. I'm *guessing* you
> specified a bad partition. That's typically what the above error
> message *really* means -- basically you're trying to mount a
> partition that doesn't exist. Check what it *really* is, mount your
> REAL / partition, "chroot" to the *real* / partition and then edit
> your /etc/lilo.conf, write the changed lilo with /sbin/lilo and
> reboot.
> John
