[99523] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Recovering from Partition Magic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Goforth)
Sun Nov 15 10:12:01 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:53:38 -0500
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From: Eric Goforth <ericgoforth@csi.com>
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Lance Cummings wrote:
| 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.
I booted from the rescue disk an then mounted my root partition like so:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mnt
I then set its root filesystem partition with a command as follows:
rdev vmlinuz /dev/hda5
(Do I need to do this everytime that I boot from the rescue disk?)
I then used set the new swap partition using:
rdev -s vmlinuz /dev/hda9
(Is this also necessary everytime that I boot from the rescue disk?)
I then tried:
run e2fsck /mnt/dev/hda5
and got the message that run wasn't found? Where in the directory tree
would run normally be located? I tried using the find command to look for
it, but got the message that find wasn't found.
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