Sounds to me like Windows didnt recognise your partitions properly, and
installed over the root partition of Linux.
I've had this happen to me before. The only solution that I found was to
re-install the whole lot, both OS's, making sure that windows recognised
the partitions that were allocated to it.
"Ingo P. Korndoerfer" wrote:
>
> dear mandrake community,
>
> i am utterly at loss with my laptop :
>
> - prehistory : installed some new softare on my windows partition.
> (yeah, yeah .. i don't want to hear about it,
> but the linux version of the program
> gave me a segmentation fault)
> maybe the disk got a little too full there. not sure.
> abandonned this, logged out.
>
> - problem : can't get into my linux partition now anymore :
>
> partition check hda1 hda2 <>
> VFS : Cannot open root device 03:05
> Kernel Panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> what could be the problem ?
>
> - all the device drivers should be there since i have been working
> with this laptop
> under linux for some three months now.
> - the mbr should be ok, since the boot process starts but gets hung later.
>
> - partition table ? i figured out how to get into rescue mode.
> here is the output of gpart -vvd /dev/hda1
> doesn't that look unsuspicious ? i have no clue.
>
> dev(/dev/hda1) mss(512) chs(202/240/63)(LBA) #s(3054240) size(1491mb)
> Primary partition(1)
> type: 104(0x68)(UNKNOWN)
> size: 904228mb #s(1851859059) s(1936028272-3787887330)
> chs: (116/100/32)-(288/101/46)d (128044/47/32)-(250521/155/46)r
> hex: 6E 64 20 74 68 65 6E 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6E
>
> Primary partition(2)
> type: 121(0x79)(UNKNOWN)
> size: 263172mb #s(538976288) s(1330184192-1869160479)
> chs: (357/32/43)-(0/13/10)d (87975/34/51)-(123621/173/61)r
> hex: 79 20 6B 65 79 0D 0A 00 00 00 49 4F 20 20 20 20
>
> Primary partition(3)
> type: 083(0x53)(UNKNOWN)
> size: 682794mb #s(1398362912) s(538989391-1937352302)
> chs: (345/32/19)-(324/77/19)d (35647/107/11)-(128131/183/54)r
> hex: 20 20 53 59 53 4D 53 44 4F 53 20 20 20 53 59 53
>
> Primary partition(4)
> type: 073(0x49)(UNKNOWN)
> size: 10mb #s(21337) s(1394627663-1394648999)
> chs: (87/1/0)-(335/78/2)d (92237/67/3)-(92238/165/45)r
> hex: 7E 01 00 57 49 4E 42 4F 4F 54 20 53 59 53 00 00
>
> the output of the same for /dev/hda is more suspicious :
>
> ** Error: invalid extended ptbl found at sector(3069360).
>
> dev(/dev/hda) mss(512) chs(776/240/63)(LBA) #s(11733120) size(5729mb)
> Primary partition(1)
> type: 011(0x0B)(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) (BOOT)
> size: 1498mb #s(3069297) s(63-3069359)
> chs: (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)d (0/1/1)-(202/239/63)r
> hex: 80 01 01 00 0B EF 3F CA 3F 00 00 00 71 D5 2E 00
>
> Primary partition(2)
> type: 133(0x85)(Extended Linux)
> size: 4230mb #s(8663760) s(3069360-11733119)
> chs: (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)d (203/0/1)-(775/239/63)r
> hex: 00 00 01 CB 85 EF FF 07 B0 D5 2E 00 D0 32 84 00
>
> Logical partition
> type: 036(0x24)(NEC MS-DOS 3.x)
> size: 953967mb #s(1953724755) s(945901090-2899625844)
> chs: (370/83/52)-(370/113/49)d (62559/143/2)-(191774/47/4)r
> hex: 68 53 74 72 24 71 71 72 72 78 32 38 53 79 73 74
>
> Primary partition(3)
> type: 000(0x00)(unused)
> size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
> chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> Primary partition(4)
> type: 000(0x00)(unused)
> size: 0mb #s(0) s(0-0)
> chs: (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)d (0/0/0)-(0/0/0)r
> hex: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>
> do i have hopes set to high, when i think everyhing should be still there ?
> how can i mount my linux partitioon again ? how can i fix this ?
> i'd really like to rescue my data.
>
> 1000 thanks in advance for all hints !
>
> ingo
>
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>
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>
> Ingo P. Korndoerfer
> Dept. of Biological Chemistry
> Technische Universitaet Muenchen
> An der Saatzucht 5
> D-85350 Freising Weihenstephan
>
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> +49 (8161) 71-5167 (computing)
> fax : +49 (8161) 71-4352
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>
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