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Re: Recovering from Partition Magic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lance Cummings)
Sat Nov 14 01:29:05 1998
From: "Lance Cummings" <lance@tky3.3web.ne.jp>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:21:23 +0900
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I don't know how to avoid this problem, but it *is* a problem. Didn't
make the association at first, but every ext2 resize I've done with PM4.0
has resulted in a failed boot the next time around. I use System
Commander, and I still have this problem with PM. Even my custom-
made boot disks don't work after a re-size.
Here's the fix that works for me every time, though:
1) after entering the rescue program: run
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt
(change /dev/sda6 to your root's home, of course -- specifying a file
system type is not necessary -- ext2 is assumed)
2) run e2fsck /mnt/dev/sda6
(again, change the device to match your own config)
3) There were no errors reported, so: lilo -r /mnt
Reboot from System Commander is now successful.
4) Run /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/floppy/lilo.conf on the floppies, and then
they're good, too.
Lance
On 14 Nov 98, at 0:50, Eric Goforth wrote:
> 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
<snip>
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