MadHattr Posted November 29, 2002 Report Share Posted November 29, 2002 earlyer i tryed partitioning my second 60 gig hd from the mandrake control center and all and i partitioned my second hd into 4 difrent partitions and stuff and i figured that my other hd the 80 gig with mandrake on it that i was in at the time would be fine but now when i reboot i get the following error when mandrake is starting up ok its checking filesystems it says The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext filesystem (and not swap or ufs or st try running something else), then the superblock is courrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternative superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> : Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hdb6 failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (y/n) (beware you might loose data) ok so i typed yes and it said this *** An error occurred during the file system check. *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot *** when you leave the shell. give root password for maitnance (or type control-d for normal startup): normal setup will not work so i guess i have to go fix the problem manualy ? does anyone know whats going on here ? i have no clue what all this magic number block crap is buti dont understand it at all.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Hullo I am a newbie and had a similar error when I ran the tester after running a program called partimage. Me thinks the ext2 checker can't handle ext3. My solution was to use my windoz emergency boot disk to get to the famous a prompt and then type fdisk /mbr then reboot with my mandrake cd and re-start hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dahvaio Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 You can also boot up with the Mandrake CD and choose the F1 option and then go into a terminal and then edit your /etc/fstab and then delete or comment out the /dev/hdb6 line or any other line that is giving you the errors. I don't know exactly how you partitioned it or with what partition type but doing the above should get you back to where you were before. Doing it this way, you will not have to start over.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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