I don't think it's that serious. Sounds like the partitions just got
renumbered. Use your boot floppy (you made one right?) or go get
tomsrtboot and boot off of it then look at your partition table and if
necessary, moun them 1 at a time a figure out what is where, then fix
/etc/fstab on the root partition.
Stew Benedict
On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Ellick Chan wrote:
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Aug 6
>
>
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