Re: [LI] Kernel Panic !!!Today morning when I tried booting into Linux I gotthe following error:

[Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

> <snip> Try rebooting your PC. It may remove your error. Also try disabling all
> disk
> optimisations. If it does not work, try running fsck. That's the final
> solution.
>

Tried rebooting a couple of times already. That did not help. How do I disable
disk optimisations ???
To run fsck, I need a shell. It does not go that far ;-(


>
> Ghins Mathai wrote:
>
> > On my dual boot system (win 95, Linux), I encountered the foll error while
> > trying to boot Linux:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > EXT-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap
> > for group 1 not in group (block 0)!
> > EXT-fs: group descriptors corrupted !
> > Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Why do I get this error ? Is there any way this can be corrected ? If
> > not is there any way by which I can take a backup of contents of Linux
> > partition ?
> >

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