On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 10:15:42AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: > At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) > >(you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to > >specify a config file: > > Still problems. I booted off the rescue disk, and then tried to mount some > partitions using the set-up screen, but got the error message: Mount > failed: invalid argument. > > I then tried running fsck on the root partition, but it wouldn't do > anything; it complained about bad super-blocks, and suggested running > e2fsck -b 8193 <device> but that too did nothing? > > Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition.
Maybe not. I ran into a similar situation (bad superblock errors) and found that it was because my original rescue disk set couldn't mount the partitions. It was solved when I downloaded and created a brand new rescue.bin and root.bin from frozen and they were able to mount the partitions no problem. I booted up, mounted, chroot to run my old binaries, fixed my lilo.conf, re-ran it et voila. -- Regards, Paul
