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Can I ifx it? win fdisk delete
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zo Webster)
Sat Nov 7 02:05:24 1998
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 22:55:39 -0800
From: Zo Webster <qwiff@bayarea.net>
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redhat 5.0
successfully working for many months. had just completed
upgrading this and that and wanted to appropriate more space
for linux partition.
fdisk under linux was not giving me what I wanted... so in
desperation AND to make a long story short - I used Win95 fdisk
to attempt to delete a partition _after_ the linux partition but
which windows recognized as a logical drive off the 'unknown' file
type linux partition.
In that one move - I changed the linux partition to 'extended dos'
or some such useless type and now linux won't boot off what once was
/dev/hda2. Instead I receive (after the partition check at boot) the
insightful message
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
Unable to open an initial console
Using rescue disks I am unable to force the system to mount anything
sensible from /dev/hda2. (i.e. error messages and an empty directory)
I have tried (from boot disk boot prompt)
vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
but received (after partition check)
attempt to access beyond end of device.
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
MS-DOS (whole bunch of stuff I didn't write down)
Transaction blocksize=512
Kernel panic: VFS: Unbale to mount root fs on 3:02
Can I recover from this? and more importantly HOW?
If a mostly full recovery is not possible, is there some way
to save the linux portion by sacrificing the windows partion?
and HOW? I would appreciate somewhat explicit instructions -
I have read many posts to newsgroups that say -'use boot disks'
but I don't know what to do with the 10 commands at my disposal
when I can't figure out how to mount the hard drive!
If I fix this - I promise I'll ask here to fix the problem that
started all this off as well as posting a summary at the completion.
zo
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