Hi all; I am trying to be a good boy scout and be prepared. Since I do a lot of messing around with linux, I am good at breaking it. So, I would like to be able to boot another linux and when necessary, try to repair my linux on hda5. My system is: Mandrake 7.0 hda1 = linux /boot hda2 = windoze hda3 = extended hda5 = linux / hda6 = linux swap I have Tomsrtbt and I can boot it, make a /mnt/tmphda5 dir, mount /mnt/tmphda5, and do things to hda5. Which is very good if I need to change something on hda5. But, I would also like to be able to run "e2fsck" -from tomsrtbt- on hda5. With hda5 NOT mounted when I run e2fsck I get error message "Filesystem has unsupported features while trying to open dev/hda5". How can I make a standalone boot disk that will run "e2fsck" on hda5? One thought I have is I have another 2 G HD. I could install it and install a minimum command line linux on it and use that as a rescue linux. Would that work? Thanks Charles
