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  • From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] disaster recovery methods
  • Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 17:20:28 +1300

James Miller wrote:
>
> I think what I need to do to attempt to correct this
> error is to run fsck/e2fsck.
> If so, I need to figure out how. The machine has no
> working floppy,
> It has a PCMCIA network card, but that is useless without
> PCMCIA functionality - which is installed on the BL partition
> I can't boot. I have a DOS partition on this drive (PTS DOS)
> which still boots fine (no PCMCIA functionality there),
> I also have the ramdrive version of BL2 set up there, so
> I can boot into it. Unfortunately, it does not include
> fsck/e2fsck, and of course it can't handle PCMCIA either.

The goal seems to be getting a copy of fsck to BL2 (ramdisk).
Can you use interlnk/intersvr to get fsck to the DOS partition?
If so, mount the DOS partition from BL2 and run fsck. Otherwise,
try mounting the Linux partition from BL2 and get fsck from
there (/sbin).

Cheers,
Steven




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