> Paresh Dhakan forced the electrons to say:
> > From windowsNT I ran disk administrator and
> > deleted the partition and booted to Linux and I got
> > the error "Cannot mount root fs". I again converted
>
> All your symptoms seem to tell that your root partition is on that 1GB FAT
> partition. Is it the new 'Install to Windows Partition' feature of RHL 6.2?
>
> Binand
It need not be this bad. If the disk admin just deletes its own partition
(say hda5 or hda6) and then *re-numbers* the remaining partitions, then
that alone is enough to cause the exact symptoms he talks about.
Moreover, when he recreated the FAT partition, disk admin probably
allocated the next higher unused partition number to it - say hda9 or
hda10 or whatever instead of the old one (hda5 or hda6).
One of the solutions is to pass extra command line arguments to lilo
telling linux where to look for the root fs - e.g. root=/dev/hda6.
You may still have problems even after this due to screwed up naming for
/var /tmp and whatever you have in /etc/fstab. And you may have to fix it
by hand. But it won't be too difficult.
Kedar.
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