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.
