On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:30:39AM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> > if you can see all the directories and mount all your partitions
>
> > from an emergency boot disk, try re-running lilo and booting
>
> > again.
>
> No luck. I re-ran LILO this morning, and nothing changed.
>
> Any other
"I would first try booting from the emergency boot floppy. See if you can
access any of the partitions. If you can, then you still have a partition
table there. In that case, I would try running fsck on the / partition -
when it is NOT mounted."
Forget this! I was thinking of booting with a re
In linux.debian.user, you 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 sa
Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> dmesg shows this interesting entry:
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
>
> and the view in cfdisk is:
> Size: 60040544256 bytes
> hdb1BootPrimaryLinux ext2509.97
> hdb2PrimaryLinux swap1019.94
>
> if you can see all the directories and mount all your partitions
> from an emergency boot disk, try re-running lilo and booting
> again.
No luck. I re-ran LILO this morning, and nothing changed.
Any other ideas?
Jonathan
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Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
> What if hdb4 is actually a primary partition that I cannot see? This
> would violate the partitioning rules, wouldn't it?
hdb4 should be an extended partition. an extended partition is
required to support logical drives.
using normal fdisk should show more results.
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
> 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 " repe
Jonathan Brandmeyer said:
> 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 en
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