boss, your new swap was hda5 not hda2 so you basically hosed your
extended partiton. remove the swap partition from /etc/fstab and try
again.
Cheerio
Robin
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>
> as i recently posted, i created additional partitions on my hdd.
>
> as only 4 partitions aer permitted, i had to delete my existing swap
> partition /dev/hda2 and recreate another one in an extended partition
> /dev/hda2 (again) having one swap /dev/hda5 and two other partitions.
>
> further to this when i boot to my old linux partition (whose swap has
> been deleted), it gave
>
> "activating swap partition /dev/hda2. invalid argument."
>
> then it gives inode 296961 has imagix flag set
> /dev/hda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck ....
>
> on going to maint mode and running fsck, it gave for half an hours, one
> of these:
> inode ... is in use, but has dtime set.
> inode ... has imagic set
> inode had illegal blocks
> too many illegal blocks in inode.
>
> and gave option for clear or fix.
>
> i pressed "yes" to all. it kept on going on. it is still not working.
>
> how to attach new swap partition to the old linux inst?
>
> how can the exisiting inst be saved?
>
> regards
> -vulcan
>
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