EMERGENCY - CANNOT BOOT MAIN SYSTEM!
Hello Chodura and unorthodox friends :-) Problem is this: I booted using LILO with spelling mistake as "boot=/dev/hda1" instead of correct "boot/dev/hda2". Since that, I cannot access /dev/hda1 which is my DOS partition with valuable data. So, I tried to boot from CD and trief to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c and the error is: "/dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number" whereas the fdisk partition table shows everything o.k. . Obviously, however, the partition table or the fat1 has been destroyed. What can I do here to rescue my files (/dev/hda1 has NOT been formatted since error occurence, so the files MUST be there). O.k. I will leave it to talents as you are. hope that helps ;-) O
"o.b./RSi/TRSi/SCS/BrainBombz/F4CG" wrote:
Hello Chodura and unorthodox friends :-)
Problem is this: I booted using LILO with spelling mistake as "boot=/dev/hda1" instead of correct "boot/dev/hda2". Since that, I cannot access /dev/hda1 which is my DOS partition with valuable data.
So, I tried to boot from CD and trief to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c and the error is: "/dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number" whereas the fdisk partition table shows everything o.k. .
Obviously, however, the partition table or the fat1 has been destroyed.
What can I do here to rescue my files (/dev/hda1 has NOT been formatted since error occurence, so the files MUST be there).
O.k. I will leave it to talents as you are. hope that helps ;-)
Just boot from the cd again and do the "boot installed system". It will ask you for the partition. Tell it hda2 if thats where your linux root partition is. After it comes up fix lilo.conf and rerun lilo. -- Mark Hounschell markh@compro.net
"o.b./RSi/TRSi/SCS/BrainBombz/F4CG" wrote:
I booted using LILO with spelling mistake as "boot=/dev/hda1" instead of correct "boot/dev/hda2". Since that, I cannot access /dev/hda1 which is my DOS partition with valuable data.
So, I tried to boot from CD and trief to mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c and the error is: "/dev/hda1 has wrong major or minor number" whereas the fdisk partition table shows everything o.k. .
Obviously, however, the partition table or the fat1 has been destroyed.
What can I do here to rescue my files (/dev/hda1 has NOT been formatted since error occurence, so the files MUST be there).
Fear not, for help is at hand ;-) Do you have enough free space on you system to make a copy of /dev/hda1? If you do, then my first piece of advice would be to make that copy. Do you have a DOS/Windows boot disk? If you do, I would suggest booting with that boot disk and see if you can see your Windows hard drive. Is all your Windows stuff in just one big partition, or do you have multiple partitions? Taking things one step at a time, just do the above and report back with your results (and more details as to your partitioning scheme, version of Windows, etc.). Good luck, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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