> 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.
I'm getting that error on a Debian 2.1 (unstable) system
running a 2.0.36 (stock) kernel. I was testing by
using:
mke2fs -i 2048
... trying to increase the inode density.
I would guess that this is a mount issue, rather than a
kernel or fs module matter.
> 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.
This doesn't appear to be RH6.1 specific.
> 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.
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