On Tuesday 10 February 2004 03:11, Marc Resnick wrote: > Well I tried booting with the MDK cd 1. I booted from cdrom and chose the > upgrade option. As soon as I got to partitioning, I got the error 'Could > not mount hda5', and I could do nothing about it. Please tell me I'm not > going to have to reinstall Linux. An easy solution would be much nicer.
An easy solution might not be there but your install probably is still there. Looks to me you hosed up your partition table or at the least changed the existing partition order. Before you go any further strain your memory and see if you can jot down what your partition table looked like before you started messing in it. By that I mean mount-points, names, order and especially size. If you can remember the sizes you might be able to recognize the original partitions. Then boot into rescue-mode with the install CD (hit F1 and type "rescue") and use fdisk or cfdisk (I'm not sure the latter is there, though) to check the partitions. Don't alter any partitions before you are 100% sure that they are what they are i.e. mount them first to see what's on them. Tread warily, you're on very thin ice here! If the above is over your head; Say so and we'll try and get you there step by step. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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