Ok, but,
(1) No-one but you has reported it,
(2) I don't have the environment to do ***ANYTHING*** about it,
including recreate it or make any guesses about it,
(3) Your symptoms are STILL consistent with my other guesses, and I
STILL want you to do some work with things like "fdisk -l" and
"e2fsck" to come up with some useful detail. You current guess
is both un-testable and contrary to my intuition and experience
as to the likely causes of your problem.
So, again, please run "fdisk -l" from tomsrtbt and send me the output,
then try "e2fsck" from tomsrtbt, then we'll talk about using other tools
to figure it out. Until then:
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* I recommend tomsrtbt users not use the "red had" (?sp) distribution, *
* and stick to one of the main stream distributions such as SlackWare, *
* DebIan, SuSE, ManDrake, etc., if tomsrtbt isn't enough. There is no *
* need to shoot yourself in the foot by installing some commercially *
* forked thing from someone who dreams up a package format like ".RPM" *
* which required special binary formats and tools just to make life *
* difficult and be proprietary. Tom recommends, in fact, that you skip *
* ALL this stuff and just "Use the source, Luke". Join the ranks of the *
* distribution-free! Also, ***Please, as noted in the FAQ, don't send *
* me problems specific to "RedHad", I don't have it, I've never run it, *
* I don't care about it, I don't support it, and the most I'll do for *
* it is pass on SOLUTIONS submitted by users. Thanks. PS, I don't own *
* any stock in RHAT or its competitors, this opinion is impartial. *
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-Tom
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Tony Nugent wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:14:39 +1000
> From: Tony Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: TomsRootBootDisk Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] couldn't mount RDWR because of unsupported features
>
> On Fri Oct 08 1999 at 20:49, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> > I just tried using tomsrtbt on a box with a brand new redhat 6.1
> > installation on it.
> >
> > $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > EXT@-fs: 0301: couldn't mount RDRW because of unsupported features
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > Can anyone confirm that this is happening to them with rh6.1?
>
> Nobody else has said anything about this here since I posted this
> message, but I can confirm that this has happened to me here time and
> time again on every rh61 installation that I've done so far (10 or so,
> so far). It happens with both SCSI and IDE drives, so it doesn't seem
> to be related to the device drivers.
>
> > [If so, then the new rh61 is using an incompatible/extended version
> > of the ext2 filesystem, which is likely to make tomsrtbt unusable
> > with this and probably other forthcoming distributions.]
>
> I strongly suspect that this could be a kernel / ext2fs / mount issue
> with the 2.2.x kernels, but I really have no idea why this is
> happening.
>
> But no matter what the cause, the fact is that it is not possible to
> mount ext2 filesystems made with a redhat 6.1 installation with a
> tomsrtbt disk.
>
> Ouch.
>
> Heh, the other thing is that rh61 doesn't come with a rescue.img
> image, and the documentation on the distribution disk is incorrect in
> that it refers to the existance of such a beast.
>
> This will probably become an FAQ, so here's one answer (hopefully not
> the last!) for those looking for a rescue disk solution for rh61.
>
> Ok, this is the scoop from a recent post into one of the redhat
> mailing lists by Jay Turner, the RedHat QA Engineer...
>
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>
> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 08:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jay Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "RedHat 6.1 Cartman Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: no rescue.img
>
> On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> > What happened to the rescue.img file from the images/ directory?
> >
> > Also, there's no rescue.txt file like it says there should be
> > (according to the html docs).
> >
> > Oops?
>
> Yes, the docs got a little out of step with the development (translation -
> development made a decision and did not tell docs :-() and therefore some stuff
> slipped. That having been said, here is the answer to your question.
>
> Rescue mode has been completely rewritten in 6.1 to eliminate the need for a
> rescue.img or for a system boot disk (the disk made during the installation, or
> one made with the mkbootdisk command . . . not the boot.img and bootnet.img
> which boot the installation program) Anyway, you can now start rescue mode in
> the following manner:
> * boot directly from the cdrom with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt
> * boot from the boot.img disk with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt
> * boot from the bootnet.img disk with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt
> * boot from the pcmcia.img disk with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt
>
> Booting directly from the cdrom will drop you at a shell prompt, at which you
> can start performing rescue tasks.
>
> Booting from any of the boot images described above will result in what appears
> to be an installation. That is, if you boot with the bootnet.img disk, you
> will be prompted to provide the location at which you are retrieving the rescue
> image from. This is the same path that you would give for an installation.
> So, if you have the distribution being nfs served on porkchop.redhat.com in the
> /mnt/dist directory, then you would enter that information in the nfs server
> and path prompts. The installer will then run off and retrieve the rescue
> image, dropping you at the same shell prompt that you get with the cdrom.
>
> We decided this method made things a lot easier in that people did not need a
> dedicated rescue.img. In addition, people did not need system-specific boot
> disks. Anyway with the boot images or cdrom can get into rescue mode now.
>
> Hope this helps clarify things a little bit.
>
> - J
>
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> Cheers
> Tony
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