[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I hate it when I'm right like this sometimes. Not 10 minutes ago I finished what I >was doing in windows, *shudder* and attempted to boot back into Mandrake. Only to >recieve kernel panic messages. I say message(s) because I have more than one fully >configured, working kernels. All having something specifically unique in their >configuration and and nature. > > All, share one thing in common as far as the error goes. All report that they're >unable to mount root fs. All, but one report FAT bread failed. I've never seen this >error message before so I don't have a clue what this one means. Anyone have any >ideas what's going on? > > I won't be able to use the rescue feature on the install CD's till I get to work >tomorrow and can retrieve the disks from my desk. > > Once again I've proven a tried and true truth...if it ain't broke DON'T TRY AND FIX >IT! KDE2 can wait till Hell freezes over for all I care. That installation of >Mandrake was the nicest I've ever seen and now it appears to be dieing of a severe >case of KDE2's disease and operator stupidity for falling prey to the dreaded >affliction known as Upgrade-itis. Damn-it! > > All this just for Koffice. It can't be worth it if it costs this much to get the app >installed and running... > > > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 10:20:59 -0500 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Re: [expert] kde1-compat > > > >Sadly, its beginning to appear that installing KDE2 into a box that is currently >running KDE1 is entirely more trouble than its worth. I've been working on getting >just this accomplished for 3 days now with No success, and am now of the strong >opinion that the only correct way to get it done is to just install Mandrake 7.2 and >be done with it! > > > >Till you get done screwing around satisfying the meriad of dependancy issues which >come up due to the stark reality of the incompatibility of a system which has been >running KDE1 you run a 50/50 risk of roaching that system by causing more library >conflicts, and possibly damaging the system mucking about TRYING to install something >on a system that wasn't designed for KDE2! > > > >I know...a sentance does not a paragraph make, but I had to get that off my chest. >I've collected over 30 RPM's and still counting attempting to install KDE2 on my >Mandrake 7.1 system. God! my head hurts from keeping all that crap that I've been >doing straight in my head. And all this just get friggin Koffice installed and >working. It STILL doesn't work, nor do I have any hopes that it will ever work. > > > >Of course, I have another plan that I'm considering. That is to make a fresh >install of Mandrake minus KDE at all and when the sytem comes up after the install I >would install KDE2 fresh from the RPM's that I've squirreled away these last 3 days. > > > >Any comments? > > The crap is getting deeper and deeper. Here is the error report from a program called Explore2fs. It's a windows program designed to read Linux partitions. I've used it on occassion to rescue information from my Linux system when things got so bad that I couldn't get to it any other way. This time I wasn't aware I was doing anything wrong until it was too late! It's not looking very good. Hopefully though it's just a bad partition table and not anything worse. All my data is on the /home partition which I'm hoping is intact and not been destroyed as this report might indicate. Its the info that was returned when I attempted to read the Linux drive with this program, Explore2fs. The program itself is not intrusive, but read-only in nature. see below... ======== Explore2fs version 1.00 pre 4 Written by John Newbigin You have debug set to high. Your debug log will now record lots of debug info Send debug logs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] New file permissions is 0x1A4 Windows 95 4.10 build number 67766446 Looking for Linux Partitions Using Win95_Scan with EI13 = 1 Scanning disk 80 EI13GetGeometry Drive 128 SectorsLo = 26490240 Bytes per sector = 512 Looking for table at sector 0 EI13ReadSector Drive 128 SectorsLo = 0 Bytes per sector = 1 Signature is AA55 Processing partitions Partition 1 /dev/hdx1 boot indicator 80 starting head 1 starting sector 1 starting cylinder 0 partition type 0B Unknown end head 254 end sector 63 end cylinder 228 starting sector 63 number of sectors 3678822 Processing partitions Partition 2 /dev/hdx2 boot indicator 00 starting head 0 starting sector 1 starting cylinder 229 partition type 05 Extended... (dos) end head 254 end sector 255 end cylinder 255 starting sector 3678885 number of sectors 22796235 Processing partitions Processing partitions Processing extended partition.... Looking for table at sector 3678885 EI13ReadSector Drive 128 SectorsLo = 3678885 Bytes per sector = 1 Signature is 0275 Did not seem to be a valid extended partition Scanning disk 81 EI13GetGeometry Drive 129 SectorsLo = 6829515 Bytes per sector = 512 Looking for table at sector 0 EI13ReadSector Drive 129 SectorsLo = 0 Bytes per sector = 1 Signature is AA55 Processing partitions Partition 1 /dev/hdx1 boot indicator 00 starting head 1 starting sector 1 starting cylinder 0 partition type 0B Unknown end head 127 end sector 63 end cylinder 165 starting sector 63 number of sectors 1338561 Processing partitions Partition 2 /dev/hdx2 boot indicator 00 starting head 0 starting sector 1 starting cylinder 166 partition type 05 Extended... (dos) end head 127 end sector 255 end cylinder 77 starting sector 1338624 number of sectors 5483520 Processing partitions Processing partitions Processing extended partition.... Looking for table at sector 1338624 EI13ReadSector Drive 129 SectorsLo = 1338624 Bytes per sector = 1 Signature is AA55 Processing partitions Partition 1 /dev/hdx5 boot indicator 00 starting head 1 starting sector 1 starting cylinder 166 partition type 0B Unknown end head 127 end sector 255 end cylinder 77 starting sector 63 number of sectors 5483457 Processing partitions Processing partitions Processing partitions Scanning disk 82 EI13GetGeometry Error Found 0 Linux partitions -- Mark
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