Colburn wrote: > The problem is that while booting it insists upon looking for a ext2 > filesystem type instead of the correct ext3, and of course, it fails. > > The error reads "The superblock could not be read or does not > describe a correct ext2 filesystem" Then it suggests running e2fsck > -b 8193 <DEVICE> > i think the key problem is that Linuxconf changed something to insist > upon requiring ext2 when ext3 is the correct default. What does /etc/fstab say? When in the boot sequence does the error message appear? Maybe an older grub got installed, which is not capable of reading ext3 partitions. Try this: Boot from the first Red Hat Linux CD from RHL9 At the boot: promt, enter "linux rescue" (without quotes) ls /mnt/sysimage Look if every partition has been found. If so, chroot /etc/sysimage Check the content of /boot/grub/grub.conf If it looks correct, grub-install /dev/hda If it doesn't look right, or doesn't work, post the content here. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 8.0 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
