Hi! It's all very well, bur as of now, whenver I try to bootthe machine, I have the lilo text-only version and whether I choose Linux / Linux-failsafe / Windows, I get the EBDA too big error. I tried to look into the PhoenixBIOS settings (version R0111K5). Can't find anything about EBDA. I triad and loaded the default BIOS config. Nothing changed. What's the next move? (of course, I have no backup!) On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 10:42 AM, wolfi wrote:
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 11:06, Lao Toma wrote:
Hi!
When I tried to upgrade my laptop from 8.0 to 8.1, it took ages, sort of bocked - but lots of disk activity at around 82% after 6 hours ...!! I aborted the installation. There was a report of 600 modules in error. I then rebooted ... Lilo screen, launch Linux ... an EBDA error message appeared (EBDA too big or something like this). I knew I had very little space left on my hard disk. It could be the problem.
Anyway, I am now back to Win XP :-(( or MAc OS X on the desktop :-)
How can I recover my 8.0 system?
TIA
Lao Toma
Hi Lao,
I tried to do an update from 8.0 to 8.1 as well, and gave up after several attempts; my HD is big enough.
IMHO it has proven to be a good idea to:
- create a separate home partition (/home as reiserfs) - then do a clean install on / (root), and whatever other partitions you have got (/boot, /usr ..), leaving /home in peace!! -> Instead of an update.
Of course this is only feasible once you have gone through a clean install creating a separate /home partition. I did it that way from 8.0 to 8.1 and it worked. In case you do not have a separate /home partition, you must backup your data first. Now, that your machine seems to be totally defunct., there remains only that way, I'm afraid: - Try to recover your data from the Linux partition(s) There are tools in Windoze to access Linux partitions, but I am not familiar with that. - Then do a clean install with 8.1
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