Frist, you shouldn't post in html, it annoys people who may not answer in response to that.. and its more annoying because my reply is now probably html as well.
anyway, what exactly is the problem when you try to boot? if you can't get it sussed, boot from the mandrake CD, and do an /expert/upgrade and after it has run though, it should have fixed your problem.. rgds Frank. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anguo Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] fdisk?? Partition not mounted, linux unusable... Dear Experts, I tried to get help on the following topic on the newbie list but my question seems to advanced for the group. I also did some research on google, read some howtos and some mailing list archives but so far, the more I read, the more I am confused. :-( Since the matter involves the potential loss of a large amount of data, I really would care to get some informed advice. Thank you for any help (and thank you anyway if you can't help me or don't have time to... ). :-D (using lm8.1) In the following HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue/x67.html I see that the result of fdisk gives a listing of the following format: Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 153 1228941 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 154 166 104422+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb3 * 167 291 1004062+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 295 523 1839442+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 295 422 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb6 423 523 811251 6 FAT16 Mine however looks much stranger: #fdisk -l Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 5 Extended /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ 82 Linux swap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ 83 Linux /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 1253901899 29 Unknown I can't use Linux now. Do you know where does the problem come from and how I could solve it??? I just stumbled on this: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mandrake-Linux/message/1445 "for my hard drive (hda), I have the following symlinks: /dev/hda ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /dev/hda1 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/hda2 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 and so on." but i don't know if it is relevant at all... And also following a link from google, I find this quote: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/SGI/xfs/Release-1.0/RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0/RedHat/RP MS/devfsd-1.3.11-sgi.i386.html "(DiskDrake won't like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 instead of /dev/hda1 ...)" I used diskdrake to add one partition and my problems started (not immediately) after that... The rest of the page doens't give anything helpful though... I am puzzleder and puzzleder. thanks, Anguo Below is the background information from my previous posts. > > Linux doesn't mount /home and other important partitions at boot. It does > > mount / and /usr though... > > It does mount win98 c:/ but not d:/ .... win98 can't read d:/ anymore. > > There seems to be a problem with my partition table... > > > > I am still investigating how I can solve the problem. I found the > partition > > rescue mini howto which may or may not be relevant in my case. > > I'll look more for the answer but if anyone knows where the problem is and > > could give me some pointers, I'd be grateful. > > Would you please post the content of "cat /etc/fstab" > /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda7 /archive ext2 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /files ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows2/ vfat umask=0 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda4 /redhat ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > #df -h > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda2 587M 133M 424M 24% / > > none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm > > /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.5G 236M 87% /mnt/windows > > /dev/hda4 2.9G 4.0k 2.7G 1% /redhat > > /dev/hda6 5.8G 1.6G 3.9G 29% /usr > > > > > > #fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > Id System > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ > > b Win95 FAT32 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 > > 5 Extended > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ > > 82 Linux swap > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 1253901899 > > 29 Unknown > > > > #fdisk -l -u > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > cylinders > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > Id System > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 63 3470039 1734988+ > > b Win95 FAT32 > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 3470040 4690979 610470 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 4690980 45720989 20515005 > > 5 Extended > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 35359065 41495894 3068415 > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4691043 5494229 401593+ > > 82 Linux swap > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 5494293 17767889 6136798+ > > 83 Linux > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? -695433982 1812369815 > 1253901899 > > 29 Unknown
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