[99391] in RedHat Linux List
Recovering from Partition Magic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Goforth)
Sat Nov 14 00:58:03 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:50:11 -0500
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From: Eric Goforth <ericgoforth@csi.com>
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I resized several of my Linux partitions using Partition Magic 4.0 several
days ago. The next time that I rebooted I saw LI on the screen instead of
the familiar LILO. PM 4.0 had apparently screwed up LILO on my MBR. I
rebooted with a Windows 95 recovery disk and did an FDISK /MBR which
allowed me to use Windows 95 again.
I downloaded linuxfd.zip from Powerquest's website and went through the
steps in "Reactivating Linux after Changing Partitions." I used the
RAWRITE.EXE to make a Linux recovery disk. I was then able to mount my
root partition using mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt. I then found the kernel
and set its root filesystem partion with rdev vmlinuz /dev/hda5 and set the
swap partition with rdev -s vmlinuz /dev/hda9.
I then looked at the entries in my fstab and in my lilo.conf and all their
device names seemed to agree with what was displayed when I typed
grep /dev/hd * */* */*/* 2>&1 | more
(the device named didn't appear to have changed from before I ran Partition
Magic).
The next step is where I ran into problems, as suggested I tried setting
the lilo boot sector with lilo -r /mnt. It then complained that the
version code in the boot record was the wrong one, as the instructions said
it might so I tried /mnt/sbin/lilo -r /mnt instead. I then get a message
saying "No such file or directory." However, if I change to the /mnt/sbin
directory I see lilo there. Doing an ls -l showed that root could rwx the
file. Any idea why it doesn't recognize /mnt/sbin/lilo?
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