On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I'm afraid I've got something extremely stupid to confess. I was monkeying
> around this evening resizing some partitions. I made the Windows partition
> smaller, which freed up about 3.5GB, which I turned around and turned into a
> part of Linux's file system as /home. Well, it's a little late in the day
> and it slips my mind to that if I don't format the partition it won't work,
> and if I do then...well...I'm not sure what I was thinking. At any rate, now
> when I attempt to boot my Linux system I get kernel panic. The message I get
> is that it can't mount (root) fs.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Mark
>
Sounds like a job for a good old disk editor, go to freshmeat.net to find
a low-level disk editor and see what junk is left of the drive. I would
recommend trying partition magic to try to recover the partitions, but if
you mkfs'd the drive, then a disk editor may be of use to find the
remains. Depending on what was done, one of these may be a good choice.
-- Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Aug 6
