hmmm...hardluck anyway try the following, and see what happens
set your BIOS to allow booting from CD. If you want a cheap way boot
from your CD and choose upgrade.
On the otherhand, boot from the cd and when the installation program
starts asking questions, hit <CTRL><F2> to get a root shell. Now run
e2fsck on your linux partitions. If you dont know which one are these,
change to /tmp directory and create a testing directory
mkdir test
now try mounting the partitions one after another
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /tmp/test
if it mounts succesfully, then it was a linux partition. Unmount it and
run e2fsck on it. Once you are through with all the linux partitions, and
hoping your root partition is ok. Remount your root partition on the
/tmp/test directory and look for the file lilo.conf.
If its readable its good news, also find the /etc/fstab file. Remove from
it any partition data that has now been corrupted. That done run lilo, and
you should be allright.
So now boot into linux, there shouldnt be any problems as long as your
boot and root partitions are fine. From linux delete the partitions which
were unrecoverable and recreate them with cfdisk and mke2fs and if you
have a backup put the stuff back on it.
Just a thought: I have had numerous powercuts on linux sessions, and I
have hardly faced any trouble with them. But when it tripped during bootup
it really had me. Would love to hear about this from others
sreangsu
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, jayu wrote:
> hi there,
> it some how happened that while linux was getting startted - the computer
> got restarted - since then when ever i try & start linux - i get an error-
> kernel panic- & then nothing happens
> please help me - as to what can be done
> thanks
> Jayesh
>
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