On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > Is it possible to boot a Linux system that has suffered unfixable > primary superblock corruption in the root filesystem (ext2)? I know the > mount command can be supplied an alternate superblock with the sb > option, but AFAIK, the earliest this can be done is by setting the > option for the failing partition in /etc/fstab. But of course, root > must already be mounted for that to apply. > > Is there any Way to specify an alternate superblock to initrd to mount > the root filesystem? Can you boot to a live CD, fix the errant partition, and then reboot? Finnix should do you. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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