On Thu Oct 14 1999 at 11:21, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > In the past I have often used a nifty little rescue disk utility
> > called tomsrtbt... in essence, it is "linux on a single floppy disk".
BTW: since I've been asked, you can find it at metalab, or here:
http://www.toms.net
ftp://ftp.toms.net/rb
> > Very handy, and highly useful. It is based on libc5 and the 2.0.3x
> > kernel. Not glibc2.x compatible, but it's not difficult to work with
> > it on redhat systems (especially with a chroot).
> well if you're willing to play with it you can make it glibc compatible.
> but thats another issue.
>
> > However, when I try to use it to mount am ext2 filesystem created by a
> > redhat 6.1 installation, I get an error message similar to this:
> >
> > $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
> > EXT2-fs: 0301: couldn't mount RDRW because of unsupported features
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> I could have sworn tomsrtbt was minix.
>
> try that.
Yes, it lives on the boot floppy on a minix filesystem, and probably
on its ramdisk too.
But the error comes from trying to mount an ext2 filesystem with it.
These are two very different issues.
Someone else mentioned that the default behaviour of mke2fs has
changed in that it now makes - unannounced - sparce superblock
filesystem (ie, the superblock record only gets written to the first
few 8k blocks, not over the entire disk).
There might be a work-around this...
Cheers
Tony
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