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  From: Anthony Symons <ant@sa.pracom.com.au>
  To  : Freeman, Peter (ERHS) <Freeman.Peter@saugov.sa.gov.au>
  Date: 05 Nov 2001 13:32:09 +1030

RE: Ext 3 partition imaging

On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 12:14, Freeman, Peter (ERHS) wrote:
> >to locate the root partition. Workaround was boot with a rescue cd and
> >use e2label to label the partitions. You may be hitting this problem.
> 
> Could well be the problem, might give that a try.
> 
> The imaged machine comes up with the following on boot:
> 
> --
> Mounting root filesystem.
> EXT3-fs: journal inode is deleted.
> mount: error 22 mounting ext3.
> pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
> Kernel panic: No init found.
> --

It does sound rather conclusive that it hasnt copyed the journal
correctly. Still, you might be able to use a resuce cd that supports
ext3 (redhat 7.2 will probably work, or mandrake 8.1). Then fsck the
ext3 manually. With any luck it'll recreate the journal, and fix and
flags stating the volume isnt clean, which should make it mountable, and
then it might work after that. Its probably a safey thing where it sees
trouble and wont automount or fix to make sure you know whats going on.

Ant

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