[KLUG Members] won't boot, superblock error

[bill]

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adam@morrison-ind.com wrote:

> >It offers a command to fix things that is:
> >e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
> >which doesn't fix anything but returns the above message.
>
> It  won't if it isn't an ext filesystem. :)
>
> >To my knowledge I didn't reformat the drive (an old windows formatted
>
> Have you tried specifying the filesystem type msdos when you mount it?

How does one do that?  It gets to the superblock error before it asks me any
questions.  Would that entail booting from the floppy?

> Any possibility you fiddled with the BIOS settings; LBA, etc...

No.

> >drive) to make an ext2 filesystem so I'm not sure it is an ext2
> >formatted drive.  So what gives, dying/dead HD?
>
> Quite possibly.

New tidbit.  I can fsck /mnt/hda5 without errors but can't boot from it