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I'm havin a P4 1.8Ghz, 256 ram pc with rh9 installed with win98se.
i've installed linux around 2 months back. i was not facing any problem booting into linux until today.
today when i selected linux in my grub loader, after the initial screens linux gave me this eror.
superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. if device is valid and contains an ext2 filesystem then superblock is corrupt & try running e2fsck with alternate superblock. e2fsck -b 8193 <device> fsck.ext3- no such file or directory while trying to open \LABEL=/
then it asks me for a root password, which when i give, prompts me to a 'repair filesystem' prompt.
the command specified in the error does not work. when i press ctrl+d the system reboots.
tried all posible options.
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,304
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i don't know the commands to try to mount a partition with an alternate superblock.
i'm sure there's some recovery howto around on the web or this site, but i haven't had
to read it so i don't know. there's a good chance your linux install is all messed up.
Right now Im on windoze at school. But if you do a mkfs.ext3 --help or a man mkfs.ext3 you should find something about using a different superblock. I'll look tonight and have it tommorrow (my stupid laptop has a damn winmodem)
first umount the drive then su after that do a fsck.ext3 -c /dev/device OR fsck.ext2 -c /dev/device and it should output the badblocks. If your superblock is really bad then the first bad block should be that which your superblock is on. so do a fsck.ext3 -b newsuperblock OR fsck.ext2 -b newsuperblock where newsuperblock is not on of the blocks output from the latter command
only if u have told me this earlier......................
coz in the mean time i formatted my drive n reinstalled rh 9.
anyways, 10q guyz for ur time n valuable help.
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