The 240 error can happen: a) If you are trying to mount the drive in an EXT4 on an EXT2 partition (journaling is disabled). b) If you have mounted in EXT4 when using grub. *c)* If you have a ext4 root and don’t use grub2, you can obtain this error: EXT3-fs: sda1: couldn’t mount because of unsupported optional features (240) Add "*rootfstype=ext4*" to the kernel line* or at the grub> line when specifying the initrd? **ARE you CERTAIN you have ext4 and not ext2? You can "fdisk -l" to see a list of disks and types.** * Of course, there also is: d) Your drive journal is toast as your fsck failed. I suggest you boot into either recovery mode or LiveDistro/Knoppix and manually work on the drive or: 0) Boot into recovery mode and follow these instructions. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery if not successful: 0) Move off or backup your data. 1) Rebuild with new distro version following recovery recommendations: I can drop an Ubuntu Live and a knoppix tool distro into the mail for you today? What is your distro version exactly, please and upgrade choice? Contact me offline with your address? Other references: Fsck: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SystemAdministration/Fsck Booting Ubuntu 10.10 into Recovery Mode: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:36 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com < kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote: > I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd. >> > This is easy to do but I live in the corner of Alabama, Tennessee and > Georgia (in GA) and it is a fairly long drive (I've done it both ways > several times) > I'll be glad to help you over the phone. > >> root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1 >> > Type: > cat /proc/partitions > You can only mount what shows in that file. > However: > >> [17196389.468000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported >> > Points to an unrecognizable filesystem. > Try: > fsck -N /dev/... > but: > mount -o ro /dev/hda1 hda1 > Sometimes works... > >> Is there antway to retreive the data w/o spending any money? >> > Yes, I've done it. use (THEY ARE DIFFERENT): > ddrescue (http://www.gnu.org/s/**ddrescue/ddrescue.html) > or > dd_rescue (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/**linux/ddrescue/ > ) > One is "better" than the other but I can't remember which one/why. > The freezer trick works every time (or most every time anyway... :) > ET > PS: As usual, "free advice, you can't sue me! :)" > YMMV... > > Michael Havens writes: > >> I have a problem, I can't download ubuntu with my live cd. I live in >> cottonwood. Does anyone live around here who can copy it for me and >> I'll drive over to you to get it? Doesn't one of you live on Mingus >> Mountain? >> On 11/13/11, Stephen wrote: >> >>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/**wiki/TestDiskhas been useful for me in the past. >>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Michael Havens >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Is this the right command >>>> root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 hda1 >>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, >>>> missing codepage or other error >>>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >>>> dmesg | tail or so >>>> root@1[hda1]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 >>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, >>>> missing codepage or other error >>>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try >>>> dmesg | tail or so >>>> root@1[hda1]# dmesg |tail >>>> [17179619.724000] Adding 1646620k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:1 >>>> extents:1 across:1646620k >>>> [17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] >>>> [17179621.012000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] >>>> [17179621.248000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found >>>> [17179621.300000] pcc_acpi: loading... >>>> [17179621.416000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (36 C) >>>> [17179635.144000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver >>>> [17179639.016000] powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs >>>> [17196389.468000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported >>>> optional features (240). >>>> [17196610.992000] EXT3-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported >>>> optional features (240). >>>> root@1[hda1]# >>>> Hmm. I am suspecting a crash. 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