Hi:
I have a dual partition Pentium II with RedHat v5.2, and my lilo recently
stopped working (I think due to my win anti-virus) --> goes right into
Win now. My rescue disk does not seem to function (the PC just freezes up
after spinning the floppy). At this point I am just trying to salvage some
files and then re-install if needed.
Anyway, I got a hold of tomsrtbt v 1.7.358. When I try and mount my linux
partition I have problems. No problem mounting the Win partition (hda) but
when I try and mount Linux (hdb) I get:
# mount /dev/hda2 /test2
/dev/hda2: Unknown error
...
Transaction block size = 512
VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 3:02.
mount: you must specify the filesystem
More information on the file system does not seem to help:
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda2 /test2
attempted to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted fule systems
I am not sure if this is also of use but when I first fdisk I get:
# fdisk /dev/hda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1025.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
...
Also, when I print the partition table I get,
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 262 2096608+6 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(519, 127, 63) should be (519, 254, 63)
/dev/hda2 262 514 2028096 5 Extended
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1022, 127, 63) should be (1022, 254, 63)
I am pretty much a newbie so I am not sure if this is a salvagable
situation or I should just reinstall (and lose what files I had).
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Koleman Strumpf
