Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:36:43 -0500 (EST) | From | <> | Subject | Ext2 failure question |
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Hello,
I've installed Linux on my girl-friend's machine. For some reason LILO failed (not unusuall). What I did, is that I booted with a dos disk and I did a fdisk /mbr so she could still use winblows '95. That went well.
After that, I had to make her a Linux boot disk. So I took a kernel 2.0.36 (form redhat-5.2) compiled on my machine, and I used it as a rescue disk, then I tryed to mount her linux partition, (with mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /z) and mounting failed complaining about the mount type.
Then I checked with fdisk to make sure that it was indeed in ext2, and it was. Mount seemed to complain about a corrupted superblock. First of all, is there anyway to bring this partition back (after all, aren't superblocks suposed to copy themselves all over the disk?).
Second of all, is there any software related possible causes that could make ext2 crash when it coexists with win '95 on a drive. Because on all the machines that I've installed linux on (about 12 or so), it never crashes.
What when wrong ????
Papi
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