[PLUG] kernel panic

[Fred Davis]

single-user bootup gives same kernel panic error

using resuce disk, can't mount /dev/hda2 at all, it says:
VFS: can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev 03:02
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many
mounted file systems

thanks anyways... any other thoughts?
-fred

On 20 Apr 2001, Charles Fultz wrote:

> Fred Davis <fdavis2@purdue.edu> writes:
>
> > I haven't touched any system files in a while, everything was working just
> > fine, unti lthis last time I tried booting up.
> >
> > right now there are 2 partitions on the harddrive: a 2G /dev/hda1 for
> > win98, and /dev/hda2 is 2G ext2 for Debian (which it can't mount as root)
> >
> > I can still boot into win98 and it works fine.
> >
> > I downloaded explore2fs to see if I can read any of the files on /dev/hda2
> > from windows. It recognizes /dev/hda2, but when I click to see the files
> > on it, it gives me an Access Error or something like that...
> >
> > assuming I didn't change any system files, does this mean the filesystem
> > is corrupted?
> > If so, any way I can save any of the files?
>
> Try one (or both) of two tings:
> 1.) boot from a linux floppy and see if you can mount the partition.
> 2.) boot single-user and see if you can do anything with it from there.
>
> HTH
> Charles Fultz
> fultz
>