[ale] crash

[Robert L Harris]

> 
> Ok.  So one of our users finally trashed a server ( some idiot knocked the plug
> out of the wall while moving some stuff around ).  At this point I'm finding
> that the RedHat rescue option leaves a little to be desired.  Any way after
> getting to the point that I can run e2fsck I'm getting a message that says the
> super block is bad and I should run "e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/sda1" and mabee that
> will fix the problem.  If I cant fix the superblock problem how can I
> gracefully restore this system without disturbing the other software?
> ------         David Hamm - dhamm at itserve.com           --------
> 

David,
  I kinda cheat.  I do the "install" and give it all the info on my
hardware so it will load the modules.  Once that's done, Alt+F2 to change
consoles then you can fsck the device as long as you have "fsck" available...

Robert

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