Steps: 0. Read the web site I mention in step 1.
1. Download gpart.linux from http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ (Gpart is a partition table guesser. I've had much success with it.) 2. Put gpart.linux on a floppy 3. Boot into Rescue on the LM8.1 CD 4. Copy gpart.linux to /bin/ on the RAMdisk filesystem and chmod a+x it. Rename it if it pleases you. 5. Run gpart.linux with some options. Use "gpart.linux --help" for options. 6. Reboot. You may have to reinstall your bootloader, but I'm sure you can figure out how to do that. -- Asheesh. On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Charles Darcy wrote: > 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 :-). > > ------------------------- > > 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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