The simple way is to boot with single floppy linux (mulinux or so many other) , and run e2fsck.
The initrd way is long and time consuming. Regards, Mukund Deshmukh Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd. Web site - http://betacomp.com -----Original Message----- From: Rohan Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-india-help <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, February 02, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: [LIH] booting initrd > >Hi, >I have quite an interesting situation at hand. >I don't have a floppy drive and neither do i have a cdrom drive >I have windows on /dev/hda1, linux / on /dev/hda2 >but unfortunately, i think /dev/hda2 is corrupted or something similar. > >I used loadlin as follows >> loadlin bzImage root=/dev/hda2 > >But the kernel fails to mount root fs. >Now i'm trying to set up an initrd image from which i can get a shell prompt >and then fsck or maybe mke2fs the /dev/hda2 partition. > >Is it possible to set up such kind of initrd image?? > >thanx > >-- >arc_of_descent > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
