Re: It won't boot - unknow or corrupted file system

[Stew Benedict]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes wrote:

> Hello again
> 
> I am rather confused with the way 9.1 uses the partitions.
> 
> Using pdisk I've got:
> 1..7 - several unknow partitions

Mac "driver" partitions

> 8 - unknow partition but this was the one I chose as Apple Bootstrap and 
> mounting point /boot.

bootstrap good - /boot bad

> 9 - ext3 - /
> 10 - Swap 
> 11 - /home
> 
> In yaboot.conf I have
> 
> boot=/dev/hda8
> 

This is OK

> image=hd8,/vmlinuz   <-- hd:9,/boot/vmlinuz
> 
> root=/dev/hda9
> 
> initrd=hd:8,/initrd   <-- hd:9,/boot/initrd

Verify /boot exists on hda9 and that the kernel and initrd are there.

> 
> Again, what is wrong?  and how to change it?  Do I have to run lilo -v -t?  Or 
> something similar?
> 

ybin -v - see my previous message for all the steps.

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Stew Benedict

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