Hi,

After upgrading my kernel to 2.4.2 and running LiLo again I now find I get a macintosh warning every time I boot into mac. The warning says "disk unreadable, do you want to initialize it?", the disk in question is the macintosh standard partition used for booting linux. When I run disk first aid and try to repair it the program says the disk is unrepairable .. here is the output from disk first aid :-

Checking disk "linux_boot".
Checking "Mac OS Standard" volume structures.
Checking for locked volume name.
Checking extent BTree.
Checking extent file.
Checking catalog BTree.
Problem:  Invalid BTree Header, 0, 0
Checking catalog file.
Problem:  Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 105, 5
Problem:  Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 102, 5
Problem:  Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 106, 5
Problem:  Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 104, 8
Problem:  Reserved fields in the catalog record have incorrect data, 103, 8
Problem:  MountCheck found serious errors.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Cannot continue.  An internal error has occurred.

If I initialize the partition will that also erase the data on any other partitions on the disk? If so is there something else I can do to restore the boot partition?

many thanks.

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- Jonathon Wallen
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