[PLUG] Screwed up & hosed

["Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Life sucks.

Having said that ...

I was re-mounting my filesystem portions into their own partitions. Did /var
first; worked like a charm.

Then I did - stupidly, as it turned out - /etc and /sbin. Must have skipped
a step, because now when I go to boot, I get:

auto: auto: no such file or directory

I figured ... OK, so I'll just use a boot disk; mount the main (root)
partition; renamed my saved /etc and /sbin directories; edit out the mount
commands from /etc/fstab; and I should be back where I started.

No such luck.

Using the latest Tom's root boot disk, I get:

"ext2-fs: 03: 45: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features"

I tried to do a e2fsck on that particular partition, figuring I clobbered it
somehow. The e2fsck on Tom's is v 1.10 - which said (can y'all see this
coming ...?) "filesystem has unsupported features".

Luckily, it was only my Linux setup that got foobared; my Win2K partition is
fine and untouched. Which is how I can send this email.

I tried downloading "PocketLinux" - figuring I'd use that as a rescue disk,
and fsck my partition back into health, if I could. No luck; can't mount my
partition with it, either.

Help, anybody!



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