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



Why don't you boot from the bootdisk
regards
Aditya
----- Original Message -----
From: Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] HELP... Kernel Panic !!!


| 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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