jose,
Thanks for your response!
I gave this a halfhearted try, and it did not appear to work. It may
have been because I wasn't absolutely sure which was my / partition, so
I was doing a trial and error booting from the floppy -- I realized I
wasn't getting anywhere, and went to bed. (Each trial takes a long
time, and I wasn't sure I'd know when I was successful.)
In the morning I found the message from civileme and followed his
instructions, and everything seems fine.
I will write back to him and may include a few notes.
Randy Kramer
jose orlando t. ribeiro wrote:
> I am always optimistic...
>
> try this: find your lilo boot floppy, when it starts put
> "boot=/dev/hdxn" where x is the hd and n the partition of your "old"
> root when (if? ;-), ah ...so much possibilities, so little time...)
> it boot/mount edit /etc/lilo.conf so it don't try to mount your messed
> partition...
>
> I'm not a expert, but I would try this :-)
>
> If it works, tell us... I need to write a recipe book for linux voodoo :-)
>
> good luck!
>
> orlando
> Randy Kramer wrote:
> > The system won't boot.
> > "The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> > filesystem. ... you might try running e2fsck with an alternate
> > superblock:
