on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:47:57PM +0200, John Smith (netman1@home.nl) wrote: > Hi all, > > yep, I've one, 'controller failure' once every few reboots, can still > access the drive though and want to save some stuff. 'rescue > root=/dev/hda2' works fine, but the ext3 filesystem seems to be > damaged: 'EXT3-fs: can't find group descriptor' plus read errors on a > sector. > > Anybody any hints on how to proceed from here? Buy a new hard drive. Restore your data from your recent and regularly made backups. > How do I boot without mounting anything and trying to run something > (fsck?) If you want to play with bad data, boot removeable media (Tom's Root Boot, Knoppix, LNX-BBC) and dd the bad drive to good new media. You can treat this an an image. You'll need to treat partitions separately. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html
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