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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: BL2 ramdisk and e2fsck; was Re: [BL] BL3 rescues BL2/EZnet adventures.
  • Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:38:57 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Hal MacArgle wrote:

> First tried BL3 2-floppy, which boots lilo nicely though loadlin often
> does not work correctly unless I first boot with Win9X DOS. (It had
> worked a few times with DR-DOS before I crashed, maybe that was related?).
> Ran e2fsck and answered yes to a few questions and it said something about
> uncorrectable errors and stopped. Tried to figure this out online. It is
> nice to have several linuxes on the computer. BL2 ramdisk worked (from
> Win95 DOS boot, anyway) but does not have e2fsck.

Learn a lesson from a hosed BL2 install I ended up with: copy the e2fsck
binary to your DOS partition so it will be available to BL2 ramdisk if you
ever have this problem again.

James




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