Hi all--- I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive. Here's the general setup:
/dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerly DOS /dev/hda2 (~16MB) linux swap /dev/hda3 (~200mb) linux main: bootable, mounted as / /dev/hda4 (0) /dev/hda5 (~75mb) linux /var /dev/hda6 (~250mb) linux /usr a few days ago, i was hacking on something (LILO?), and flipped the "bootable" flag on /dev/hda1 to OFF. I also changed /dev/hda1 from a DOS partition to a Win95 FAT16 LBA partition, not thinking that this might pose a problem. (/dev/hda1 has win95 loaded on it, but I corrupted all the long filenames when I was repartitioning it. when it was labeled as a DOS partition, I could get into it using linux.) cfdisk returned an error as it was trying to write; silly me, i didn't write down what it said, but i figured nothing was seriously wrong. I rebooted. when I rebooted, I got an error: Kernel Panic: [something to the effect of, this drive's f*ed up] 03:01 I looked around and found a rootboot disk on the net (tomsrtbt), dutifully created it using another computer, and booted from a floppy. (My Debian rootboot disk wasn't working, still isn't, dunno why. <sigh>) Using a boot floppy, I can mount and read /dev/hda3 just fine, but I can't seem to run any of the binaries on it. (for example, cfdisk). I can't get into /dev/hda1 at all. So: is there a way to fix the hard drive, and /dev/hda1, without losing significant amounts of data? If so, what is it? Thanks in advance. -Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] (main) ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarding)
