EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Fischer, Sebastian wrote:
> Hej List,
>
> we have a Server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Kernel 2.6.18-53.
>
> I booted the Server with a CentOS 6.4 Live CD.
>
> After Reboot back into the Serverinstallation got the Following Message:
>
> EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
>
> I only copied one File to the Disk with the LiveCD.
>
> Have someone an Idea what went wrong?
>
I'm not sure I understand what's going on. First, though, that's a *very*
old kernel - we've a few 5.9 systems, and they're on 2.6.18-348.18.1.

Did you just install on this server, or did it crash, and you were trying
to rescue it?

       mark