In the first hard drive instance i got the drive back up and running with a
boot disk of a different kernel and i lost some of the data, i now routinely
create a boot disk and put tools on it from whatever distribution i used so
hopefully i'll be able to rescue future disks without data loss, as for how
and why the disk fails i'm still perplexed it was working here on a machine
then it was working there on a different machine then a couple of weeks
later with normal use (no * shudowns or anything) it ceased to
function.
I wonder what the unsupported option is and how it got added as an option in
the first place.
Simon
> I had the same error recently. I had an emergency and needed to boot with
an
> older
> kernel (2.0.36) which couldn't read some of my ext2 filesystems ( / and
/usr
> unfortunately). When I managed to get a working 2.2.14 kernel back on the
> system,
> everything was fine again. If your disks were created on a different
machine,
> perhaps
> a newer version of fstools was used than what you have installed? I
haven't been
> able
> to find documentation of the reason for the error, but the difference in
my case
> was
> only the relative age of the kernels and when the filesystems were
created.
> Hope this helps,
> Bob
> > Hi,
> > I've been sent 2 different hard drives in 6 months running RH6.2 from a
> > remote system linux box, for some unknown reason they go haywire and
give
> > the following message. I've been unable to fix the problem short of
booting
> > from a floppy and re-building the ext2fs which destroys the files in
some
> > instances. I've still not been able to ascertain what causes the problem
in
> > the first place and am now going to send a fresh install out with as
much of
> > the system mounted read only as i can. Anyone got any quick fix tips or
> > ideas on what's causing the problem?
> > Partition check
> > hda:hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10>
> > autodetecting RAID arrays
> > autorun...........
> > .......autorun DONE
> > EXT2-fs:ide0(3,6):couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
features.
> > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
> > Many thanks in advance for any inspirational help/comments/solutions.
> > Simon Willetts
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