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

[Chetan Kumar S <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Ghins Mathai wrote:

> On my dual boot system (win 95, Linux), I encountered the foll error while
> trying to boot Linux:


Do you have mu-linux OR tommy linux ?? these run from a single floppy.
Just that single floppy linux, also get hold of e2fsck binary, store it in
the same floppy, then boot from that floppy and run e2fsck on the disk, U
may have to use diff super block, just loot at man e2fsck

Thanks
Chetan S


> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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 ?
> 
> 
> Please reply ASAP
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> 
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