On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:16:45 +0000
David
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) #
Not sure what I can do from here - if anything.
First piece of blindingly obvious advice, I have found that P. Magic can safely be used to create initial space for linux, but that it is not a good idea to use it thereafter - parted is better. I don't have any magic solutions but if you enter <fsck> at the (repair filesystem) # prompt that program will try to analyse your file system and will suggest any fixes it can offer. You could also use the SuSE rescue system to run other things, like parted or fdisk, which should allow you to see and modify the existing partition structure. Those programs are, in fact, quite easy to use, but it is hard to give general advice without seeing their output. I have delayed writing this in case a wiser advisor was on hand, but .. faut de mieux .. that is the best I can offer. Regards, Geoff _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com