Re: [LI] HELP... Kernel Panic !!!

[Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

to run fsck I need a shell. The panic occurs much before that and I have real
important data there

Arun Sharma wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 09:55:18AM +0530, Ghins Mathai wrote:
> > Today morning when I tried booting into Linux I got the following error:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 ?
> >
>
> Run fsck a couple of times, to see if it goes away. Otherwise, you'll
> have to walk the ext2fs structures yourself using the tools that come
> with e2fs tools (or something which sounds like it).
>
> In general, it is not worth the hassle, if you don't have really important
> data in there.
>
> If you're in a situation where such crashes are frequent, you may want
> to run your fs in sync mode at lower performance, but higher safety.
>
>         -Arun
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