On Tuesday 14 November 2000 22:33, you wrote:
> 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
First of all, put the CD in the drive and set to boot from it and hit f1 as
soon as you see the opening graphic--Presto, instant rescue disk!
If you want to use Tomsrtbt, you must go to Tom's site and download a newer
version. His older version did not have support for ext2 sparse superblocks
which was a new thing in 2.2 kernels.
civileme
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