heya, just an idea,
if you can see all the directories and mount all your partitions
from an emergency boot disk, try re-running lilo and booting
again.
hth
sean
On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> > Something VERY BAD has happened. When I attempted to format the disk,
> with
> > mkfs.ext3, it reported that the partition table for that partition said 0
> > size, and I should reboot the computer to re-read the partion table. When
> I
> > rebooted, instead of LILO, I saw an endless stream of "01 " repeating
> > without end! I can boot into BIOS, and probably an emergency disk, but
> that
> > is all.
> >
>
> I can definitely boot into the system with an emergency disk.
> I should point out that my emergency disk is the stock 2.2.20 vanilla
> kernel, while the current system kernel is 2.4.18-686, also stock. All of
> the partions are ext2 or swap on hdb (since hdb5 was never formatted). This
> kernel does not have support for my video driver, so I am in console-only
> mode.
>
> dmesg shows this interesting entry:
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 <hdb5>
>
> and the view in cfdisk is:
> Size: 60040544256 bytes
> hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 509.97
> hdb2 Primary Linux swap 1019.94
> hdb3 Primary Linux ext2 30721.43
> hdb5 Logical Linux 1998.75
> Logical Free Space 25786.26
>
> What if hdb4 is actually a primary partition that I cannot see? This would
> violate the partitioning rules, wouldn't it?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Jonathan
>
>
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