On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > <MORAL> NEVER play with the partitions on a system without making a > backup! </MORAL>
yep, i know. <sigh> > Have you tried looking at it in normal fdisk? fdisk /dev/hda will show me the partition table clearly. no probs there. if i try to write & exit, it gives me something like: -- The partition table has been altered! calling ioctl() to re-read partition table hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <hda5 hda6> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <hda5 hda6> syncing disks -- and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a dos disk. > try cd'ing to the directory where /dev/hda3 is mounted and > chroot . bash > > this SHOULD give you a shell that can run those binaries. > (and its bash too ;)) thanks, yes, this works, and i can run cfdisk fine. cfdisk works fine. I didn't change anything, but i tried to write the partition table, and here's the error cfdisk gives: "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table." This was what it gave me originally when this whole mess started. > have you tried fsck? e2fsck on my ext2 drives (/dev/hda3 et al) works fine. e2fsck on /dev/hda1 of course doesn't work, because it's a non-ext2 partition. e2fsck on /dev/hda returns "Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda." <what's this superblock thing? I'm not up on the technical details of FATs.> fsck.msdos on /dev/hda returns: Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 243. fsck.msdos on /dev/hda1 returns: Currently, only 2 FATs are supported, not 81. Hmm. Why does it think I have 81 FATs on one partition? > As for the Win95 system... > you will probablky need to re-install yep, i figured so. but right now I can't even get a Win95 boot floppy to recognize my C drive (aka /dev/hda1). <sigh> Could fips help me with that problem? Thanks so much. I feel kinda stupid for not having taken appropriate precautions, but i guess i'm learning the hard way... <sigh> -Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] (main) ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarding)
