didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on another laptop with windows98
and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my windows partition. that installation could produce problem to the linux partition (maybe in principle not, but.....)thank u daniele Mark Weaver wrote: > > Daniele de Sanctis wrote: > > dear all, > > i have a laptop with a winME partition and a linuxM (8.2) partition, > > they lived and grown up without problem until when i decided to make a > > defrag of the windows partition, this cause a big problem to linux, at > > booting it faced a kernel panic, not being able ti find the INIT. it > > happened on another laptop in my lab, so the question is: how that > > winblows can make problem to the linux partition? and also, how can i > > defrag that partition, without causing problem at the linux's one?\ > > > > thank u > > > > > > daniele > > daniele, > > I've been hearing more and more of "bad" things happening to the > partition tables on disks partitioned for both windows and Linux when > the Windows installed on the disk in ME. The first thing I would do if I > were you, and I'm be painfully serious, I would take that ME disk and > through as far away as humanly possible. Then reload your Windows side > with 98 or some NT variant. NT4 or XP. IF you've got to run windows at > least use something that works. For some as yet unknown reason ME is > doing bad things to partitions tables. I'm going to have to get a disk > with ME on it and install the sucker just to get to the bottom of this > very strange mystery. And I will. > > For now though you may want to pass the kernel the location of the INIT > at boot time at the LILO prompt. Boot your Mandrake install CD's in > rescue mode, then from the menu that loads choose to go to the console. > The init file your kernel is looking for live here: > > /etc/sysconfig/init > > At the LILO prompt you would pass this information to the kernel: > > LILO: linux 3 /etc/sysconfig/init > > Give that a shot and see what happens. From the sound of things ME's > defreg has hosed your partition tables which is why your kernel can't > see the "/" (root) partition of your Linux installation where the init > file lives. > > While you've got the system booted in rescue mode you may try checking > to if Linux fdisk will correctly display your partition table by issuing > this command as root: > > fdisk /dev/hda <ENTER> > > let us know how you make out... > > Mark > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Dr Daniele de Sanctis, PhD student Homo sum humani nil alienum a me puto -------------------------------------|------------------------------------------ X-ray Structural Biology Unit (B2) | phone and fax ++ 39 010 5737306 Advanced Biotechnology Center (CBA) | e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Largo Rosanna Benzi 10 | web http://alcor.ge.infm.it/daniele.htm 16132 Genova - Italy | -------------------------------------|------------------------------------------
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