URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all, PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated. I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself. partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal. i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great! many many thanks, j. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month!
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp" <linuxjames2003@yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP ..... After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover. Catimimi.
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Hi, Well, first partition (c) win xp main (7GB or so?) second partition (f) logical ntsf (15 GB) then linux (15GB or so). I'm not sure about the technical details here but i think before the linux one there was also a small swap partition for linux. the idea was to take free space from the (f) partition and create a small (40MB) fat32 partition there between (f) and the linux ones. cheers, j. Catimimi <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp" To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP ..... After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover. Catimimi.
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James, et al.... this is one of the reasons I gave up on using a multi boot environment. I found it easier to use removeable drives (not on a laptop). All my systems that I use in a multi o/s environment now are removeable drives...face it, hard drives are cheap and this allows me to have as many installations/environments that I want to setup...and there are times when I want to setup a full system I can destroy when I'm done with it... James, not busting your chops, I feel for you as I've been there before. But have you seriousely looked at removeable drives? Not sure what your application(s) are but it may be something worth looking into.... D.Rima --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Philp wrote:
Hi,
Well, first partition (c) win xp main (7GB or so?) second partition (f) logical ntsf (15 GB) then linux (15GB or so). I'm not sure about the technical details here but i think before the linux one there was also a small swap partition for linux.
the idea was to take free space from the (f) partition and create a small (40MB) fat32 partition there between (f) and the linux ones.
cheers, j.
Catimimi <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp"
To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP .....
After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover.
Catimimi.
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Hi, Well that would have been my second idea if I had some money to spare to get a removable drive. In any case, did you have the same problem and if yes how did you solve it? And how do I get my system back??? j. Don <dr2@cssas400.com> wrote: James, et al.... this is one of the reasons I gave up on using a multi boot environment. I found it easier to use removeable drives (not on a laptop). All my systems that I use in a multi o/s environment now are removeable drives...face it, hard drives are cheap and this allows me to have as many installations/environments that I want to setup...and there are times when I want to setup a full system I can destroy when I'm done with it... James, not busting your chops, I feel for you as I've been there before. But have you seriousely looked at removeable drives? Not sure what your application(s) are but it may be something worth looking into.... D.Rima --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Philp wrote:
Hi,
Well, first partition (c) win xp main (7GB or so?) second partition (f) logical ntsf (15 GB) then linux (15GB or so). I'm not sure about the technical details here but i think before the linux one there was also a small swap partition for linux.
the idea was to take free space from the (f) partition and create a small (40MB) fat32 partition there between (f) and the linux ones.
cheers, j.
Catimimi wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp"
To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP .....
After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover.
Catimimi.
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 9:25 am, Don wrote:
James, et al....
this is one of the reasons I gave up on using a multi boot environment. I found it easier to use removeable drives (not on a laptop). All my systems that I use in a multi o/s environment now are removeable drives...face it, hard drives are cheap and this allows me to have as many installations/environments that I want to setup...and there are times when I want to setup a full system I can destroy when I'm done with it...
James, not busting your chops, I feel for you as I've been there before. But have you seriousely looked at removeable drives? Not sure what your application(s) are but it may be something worth looking into....
Kind of a ridiculous idea in my opinion..... I must have had 10 to 20 systems over the past 9 years, all with 3 to 6 systems on them (various Linux distros, DOS, Windows, etc) and never have I owned a removeable drive. All that is needed is a bit of education as to what adding or deleting a partition will do to the various systems and how to allow for that without causing any pain. Removable drive? Hell, why not just have separate computers..?
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, James Philp wrote:
Hi,
Well, first partition (c) win xp main (7GB or so?) second partition (f) logical ntsf (15 GB) then linux (15GB or so). I'm not sure about the technical details here but i think before the linux one there was also a small swap partition for linux.
the idea was to take free space from the (f) partition and create a small (40MB) fat32 partition there between (f) and the linux ones.
cheers, j.
Catimimi <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp"
To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried
to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic thereby creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which
again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP .....
After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover.
Catimimi.
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On Thursday 10 July 2003 13:34, James Philp wrote:
Dear all, when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays.
at the grub prompt: grub> root (hd0,1) grub> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791 grub> boot /dev/hda2 is the number of your linux / partion change it acordingly. and/or have a look here http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
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