On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 00:33:59 -0400
> From: Mark Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!
>
> Gavin,
>
> Which one of those HOWTO's specifically talks about mounting the linux FS
> from windows? I didn't see anything like that there.
>
Too lazy to find the link, search www.google.com for a prog called
explroe2fs, or get the free Beos from free.be.com, it can also read ext2.
> Mark
>
> If Alf were a Network Admin would he still eat Cats?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2000 11:56 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Ooooops! I think I killed it!
>
>
> on 8/6/00 12:34 AM, 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.
> >
> > Am I correct in assuming that I've toasted my file system, or is there
> > something I can do to correct this HUMUNGOUSly STUPID error in judgement.
> > This ranks right up there with one of the DUMBEST things I've EVER done. I
> > didn't have any "can't do without" data there yet, but everyone's mail and
> > stuff is there. O, just for the record this is a home machine. Still, I'm
> > feeling REAL dumb so if you want to flame me...well, I guess I've got it
> > coming. This was a real dumb move and I should have known better than to
> do
> > something like this. I DO know better...I just don't know what came over
> > me!...honest!!
> >
> > What should I do?
> >
> > Mark
>
> you may be able to fix it I think. you moved the partions around so when it
> tried to find the place on the disk where / is supposed to be it's not there
> any more - you have to tell it where it moved to. can you boot with a
> rescue floppy? if you don't have one there are ways to make them in windows.
>
> it may be as simple as booting with a resuce floppy and running lilo.
>
> you may have to edit lilo.conf and put in a line that tells it about the
> physical details of the drive - cyllendars, blocks, whatever.
>
> I'm not sure about the details of doing this but maybe that will give you
> some place to start.
>
> if you can't get that to work you may be able to mount your linux partitions
> in windows and get your data out before you reinstall.
>
> there will be specific instructions for this stuff in the how to's on line
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>
> good luck
> Gavin
>
>
>
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Aug 6
