On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My WIndows98 has done it again!
>
>
> Yesterday I booted into Windows to look at my bankaccount. Being
> there I thought it a good idea to defrag "C:" (/dev/hda1) as I
> was told to do so every now and then.
> Checked the options of defrag, told the program to work on "C:"
> and nowhere else, started the app and went to bed.
> This morning the screen told me that defrag had done its task
> without errors. I closed Windows and booted into Linux -- I
> tried to boot into Linux!
> The boot process (via LILO) started normal but somewhere before
> entering interactive mode it hanged. The first time I had to hit
> the reset button since I use Linux!
> Booting with a floppy revealed that there was no /boot on
> /dev/hda2.
[snip]
> What happened? Windows defrag destroyed the superblock of
> primary partition /dev/hda2 although it was told to just defrag
> "C:"! The other partitions where untouched and without errors.
>
I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm). This
makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
Linux do the partitioning.
John
