I had exactly the same experience. I couldn't fix it so I had to reinstall. This time I didn't make the root filesystem ext3. I would like to know if there is a safe way to use ext3 on netwinder.
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:45:41PM -0600, Ti Leggett wrote: > I have an ARM netwinder running debian woody. The root (and only fs), > /dev/hda1, is an ext3 fs. Everything was working nicely until I had to > hard reboot the machine (read - power cycle it). Now, the netwinder > flash rom won't boot to /dev/hda1 because it says it can't find a valid > ext2 filesystem. I imagine this is because the ext3 fs is dirty, but it > still should look like an ext2 fs to the boot rom. Has anyone ran into > this kind of behavior before, or know of some way around this? I booted > with a tftp boot image and nfs filesystem and tried mounting /dev/hda1 > as an ext2 but it said it couldn't find a valid superblock. Is there an > image out there that I can download, throw on a NFS server and boot with > that understands ext3 so I can fsck it? Thanks! -- Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key http://people.we.mediaone.net/rgolan/gpg.asc GPG key http://home.attbi.com/~rgolan/gpg.asc
