[URGENT] Unable to mount a partition

[Man-wai CHANG]

My colleague's Redhat 9 failed to boot, showing a error in
/etc/rc.sysinit line 182. I booted the machine with a Knoppix Live CD.
Then I tried to mount the root partition, it said the device is busy or
already mounted.

I tried running `badblocks /dev/hda2`, no error reported.

Then I `e2fsck /dev/hda2`, it still said the device is busy.

Now how could I safely recover the partition? Is it a dead superblock?


-- 
  .~.   Might, Courage, Vision, SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org
 / v \  Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and Farce be with you!
/( _ )\ (Ubuntu 6.10)  Linux 2.6.19
  ^ ^   23:43:01 up 9:00 1 user load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00
news://news.3home.net news://news.hkpcug.org news://news.newsgroup.com.hk