Boot with bad superblock in root fs

[Charles Curley]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:57:19PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
> Is it possible to boot a Linux system that has suffered unfixable 
> primary superblock corruption in the root filesystem (ext2)?  I know the 
> mount command can be supplied an alternate superblock with the sb 
> option, but AFAIK, the earliest this can be done is by setting the 
> option for the failing partition in /etc/fstab.  But of course, root 
> must already be mounted for that to apply.
> 
> Is there any Way to specify an alternate superblock to initrd to mount 
> the root filesystem?

Can you boot to a live CD, fix the errant partition, and then reboot?
Finnix should do you.


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