You didn't mention what FS it was (ext2/3/reiser,etc) are you sure those fs kernel modules are available in your recovery system?
And from the unlikely pile...we got that same error in a situation where a filesystem was quite old (SLES7 vintage) and had not been partitioned in the usual way. It was using LDL layout -vs- CDL and so you would need to reference the entire volume not the first partition on it. If that were the case you would want to mount /dev/dasdf instead of /dev/dasdf1. Booting into single user mode off of the borked volume and catting /etc/fstab would tell you that pretty quickly if that were the case. (Again I admit it's unlikely, but if it happened once...) >From the otherside of the coin... is the original system so far gone that you can't manually start the network with ifconfig? I have booted into single user mode in the past, manually started the network, and then ftp'd the files out on occasion. "Kreiter, Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 02/26/2007 03:54 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject [LINUX-390] Mount one Linux root file system on another Linux server We have an issue with one of our SLES9 servers. We'd like to mount the root FS on another server so can pull off a file that we really need. The server will boot into single user mode so that part of the FS is good. I've attached the mini disk to another Linux guest and IPL'ed it. I can see it as dev/dasdf1. When I try to mount it, I get the message "Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dasdf1, or too many mounted file systems." Chuck Kreiter Systems Programming Supervisor State Auto Insurance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
