On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 20:49 -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > 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. > > Actually, the problem isn't with my system, but with that of an > acquaintance, and no, the primary superblock refuses to be fixed with > e2fsck -b executed from Ubuntu LiveCD. Maybe this link helps. Has other possibilities when e2fsck -b fails. http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/vivek/blogger/2005/11/surviving-linux-filesystem-failures.php Regards, Patrick
