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New IDE ctlr with VLB => Can't read Linux partitions

New IDE ctlr with VLB => Can't read Linux partitions

Post by Wayne Veille » Thu, 10 Mar 1994 04:37:23



Hi:

I have a 486 DX2/66Mhz with VLB. When I installed Linux on
my machine, I didn't have an IDE VLB hard drive controller.
I heard that I will have much more power with an IDE/VLB so
I bought one. But when I installed it, it didn't mount my
hard drive as root file system. So I boot from a raw floppy
disk and tried to do a e2fsck on my disk like this:

        e2fsck -v /dev/hda1

And I received this error:

        e2fsck 0.3, 93/04/22 for EXT2 FS 0.3a
        Reading tables
        Checking root directory
        e2fsck: root inode isn't a directory

And it stop. I have 2 hard drive:

        /dev/hda1 is Linux root
        /dev/hda2 is swap
        /dev/hdb1 is MS-DOS

It worked well with the DOS drive where I use MS-Windows.

Is there is a way of using e2fsck to recover my disk
/dev/hda1 ?

Thank you for any help.

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