Hello,
I posted the message below on the Mandrake Newbie list, but I
thought I might try here also, as the problem is severe and a little
advanced (for me anyway). Please help, as I am currently without a
working system (unless you count windoze :-).
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Hi,
When I try to boot LM8.1, I get these errors:
mount: error 22 mounting reiserfs
well, retrying read-only without any flags
mount: error 22 mounting reiserfs
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
kernel panic: no init found. Trypassing init= option to kernel
The kernel needn't panic, I'm doing a good enough job for the both
of us (:-).
Luckily, I was about to do a full re-install of LM8.1, and had just
finished all the preliminary backups. I'd copied several very large
(650MB) files from Linux to Windows, switched to Windows to make a LM8.1
Install disk, then tried to return to Linux to do some final checking
before I attempted the re-install. This is when the boot failed. The
only unusual thing I remember doing, was logging into the tty1 terminal
(ctrl-alt-F1) as root, and manually mounting floppies for a few critical
backups. Afterwards, I may have shutdown without unmounting the last
floppy, and logging out as root.
I decided to try the install anyway. DiskDrake complained that it
"couldn't read the partition table, continue at own risk" and showed
only a single 'hda' partition covering the whole 15GB disk. Not willing
to risk losing the Windows partition, I aborted the install.
So it seems my partition table has been damaged ? If so, can I
repair whatever damage has been done ? I tried to boot with a LM8.1 boot
floppy, but with no success.
If I try a full install with the dodgy partition table, is there a
chance I will lose my windoze files ? Is my '/home' partition gone (I
was intending to keep it intact during the install) ?
As you can imagine, any help will be *greatly* appreciated.
thanks,
Charlie.
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