Mandrake fails to boot after installing FC4

From: Paul (Paul_at_Luap.com)
Date: 11/28/05

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    Hi

    I have multibooted Mandrake 9.2 with XP for over a year, no problems.

    This is how I did it.
    1. Added second hard disk , partitioned into NTFS, FAT32, Linux Swap,
    and ext3.
    2. Loaded up Mandrake 9.2, instructed the boot loader to be placed in
    the Mandrake partition ( hdb1), booted Knoppix then used
    dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 then copied it to a
    FAT32 partition.
    3. In XP copied bootsect.lnx to c:\ and edited Boot.ini.
    No problem dual booting.

    Now I have added FC4 using the same techique, FC4 was loaded to the
    hdb10 partition then dd if=/dev/hdb10 of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1done
    and copied the c:\ , Boot.ini edited etc.

    Now XP and FC4 will boot OK , but when I try and select Mandrake the
    boot fails with the message:

    Checking file systems
    fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
    e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck !
    Failed to check filesystem, Do you want to repair errors (Y/N)
    Y
    e2fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
    fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/)
    e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck !

    Any idea of what is going on here ?, I have checked the Mandrake file
    systems with Knoppix and everything looks OK.

    TIA

    Paul

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