[ale] Tom's root boot (was Re: [ale] rescue disk)

[Jim Philips]

You're right. I hadn't used it since I switched to ext3.I found
something in the mail archives on Tom's site that suggests ramf will
work. It is available here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery/!INDEX.html

I'm getting it too now that I know Tom's root/boot won't help me.


On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 21:17, John Wells wrote:
> I'm booted into Tom's just fine.  However, when I try
> to mount the ext3 filesystem, I get "EXT2-fs: 03:01:
> couldn't mount because of unsupport option features. 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/hda1, or too many mounted filesystems."
> 
> If I try to add "-t ext3", it says ext3 is not
> supported by the kernel.
> 
> Also, if I try to run e2fsck on /dev/hda1 I get "No
> such device : couldn't load ext3 journal for
> /dev/hda1".
> 
> Fdisk still reads the partition table correctly.  
> 
> Any ideas on how to repair?
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> --- Jim Philips <jcphil at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > Tom's root/boot disk will help. You can get it at:
> > 
> > http://www.toms.net/rb/
> > 
> > It's a great all purpose rescue disk. Just mount the
> > file system and
> > operate!
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 15:15, John Wells wrote:
> > > I have a laptop running RH 7.2 on which I screwed
> > > something up and now it won't boot (kernel panic).
> >  As
> > > Murphy's Law would dictate, the one time I need
> > the
> > > rescue disk it seems to have disappeared.
> > > 
> > > I have other systems running RH 7.2.  Is there
> > anyway
> > > to create a boot disk on one of these systems and
> > then
> > > use it to get the laptop booted?  i don't know how
> > > machine specific a boot disk is, but I'm thinking
> > it's
> > > tied pretty heavily and that this won't work.
> > > 
> > > Info is appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > John
> > > 
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