Re: PROBLEMS WITH RUNNING LINUX ON SECOND MASTER HARD DRIVE AND WIN98IN

[Brian Gerst]

"Cesar G. Dubois Carranza" wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone!!!
> 
> Sorry about asking but to be honest I don't know how to solve this. I have
> windows 98 running alright on my first master IDE hard drive. I also
> installled linux on another IDE hard drive, but now I want to have it as
> second master hard drive.
> I am trying to run windows 98, and optional from a menu at startup, I
> would like to run Linux (I have Red-Hat version 6.0).
> I have followed all the directions shown in how-to's and mini-how-to's
> regarding multiple operative systems running on the same computer, but so
> far I have been unsuccesful.
> 
> I am able to boot windows 98 and linux, but when booting linux I get the
> following error (if I boot linux as a first master hard disk, I get no
> error, but if I boot linux from windows 98 as a second master hard disk
> I do get the error):
> 
> *******
> 
> Checking root filesystems
> Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-Jul--98)
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/hda1
> fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda1
> /dev/hda1:
> The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
> filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), the superblock is
> corrupt, and might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock e2fsck
> -b 8193 <device>

This isn't a kernel issue.  Fsck is trying to check /dev/hda1 as an ext2
filesystem and is barfing because it is a FAT filesystem.  Check your
/etc/fstab.  When you switch the linux disk to secondary master the root
partition becomes hdc1.  hda1 should be msdos or vfat, and hdc1 should
be ext2.

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				Brian Gerst