David wrote:
I have a dual boot system with Win 98. Linux is installed at the end of the second disk in the order swap - ext2, the latter being around 5.8gb. There are some unused FAT32 partitions before that and I thought that I could use partition magic to create an ext2 prior to the swap. Well that didn't work since I cannot boot into Linux anymore. Restored partition but no go. Had errors, the last of which are:-
FAT bread failed iosfs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:4b, iso_blknum=16, block=32 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:4b
I can boot into Linux with the boot disk that came with 7.2. That takes me into Yast2 with an option to repair the file system.
I am then at the prompt (repair filesystem) #
I hat the same thing a year ago as I done something similar as you. he problem arose beacause the ext2 partition was /dev/hdaX. Now you deleted Y paritions before that. Now the ext2 ist /dev/hdaZ. (any number depending on your parition table). So he could not find his root fs anymoure
From there you could do nothing.
Use the boot disk to start the rescue system. Try mount your ext2 partition under /mnt. (search all /dev/hdaZ's to find the partition) Edit /mnt/etc/fstab to coorect the devices there. How is it now? Rene