[lug] superblock erased by windows. Help!

[D. Stimits]

I just checked my own instructions, apparently the "-r" is no longer
supported. I don't know if lack of the "-p" will end up being manual or
not. Certainly a "-v" for verbose could help, don't know.

"D. Stimits" wrote:
> 
> You might want to try a manual (as opposed to the default automatic)
> fsck, via "e2fsck -r /dev/sda2". You might be able to get something back
> this way that isn't otherwise available. If you can get access to the
> partition with /etc/ in it, you can cd to the root of that partition
> (e.g., mount on /mnt/ of tomsrtbt, "cd /mnt", "chroot .", then run lilo
> again.
> 
> Jesus Molina wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am using lilo ina a pentium 3 Intellistation, I have
> >
> > win 98 in /dev/sda1, partition id 6 (DOS 16-bit >=32M
> > linux native in /dev/sda2  id 83 (Linux native)
> > swap in /dev/sda3       id 82 (Linux swap)
> > WIN 95 FAT32(LBA) in /dev/sda4 id 0c, for storing windows data
> >
> > After runnig a mpg in windows, my computer crashed
> > I cannot boot linux anymore. Lilo works, but linux does not finf
> > init.
> >
> > Booting  Using TOMsrtbt, and running fdisk:
> >
> > VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 08:00
> > VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 08:00
> > LL_RW_BLOCK: DEVICE 08:00: only 512-char blocks implemented (1024)
> >
> > Trying e2fsck
> > e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda2
> >
> > I have really important data in that partition. So i will truly appreciate
> > any help in recovering ot.
> > Anyway, How It comes that win98 can crash linux only trying to run a
> > video?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jesus
> >
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