Boot with bad superblock in root fs
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Aug 28 01:43:47 UTC 2006
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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