----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 04:39 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock
> On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > From: "Richard Urwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Howabout this for a theory: > > > You installed 10.0 on the second disk while it was the only disk in > > > the machine, and therefore was hda. Your mount table, which > > > specifies which disk partitions are mapped to which Linux > > > directories, refers to the partitions on disk b as if they are on > > > disk a. You are therefore using the partitions on the 9.2 disk. The > > > boot procedure works because you are booting from the second > > > disk(?) or you have corrected the grub conf on hda to point to the > > > 10.0 kernel(?) So the kernel loads OK, but the mounted partitions > > > do not point at the 10.0 files, they point at the 9.2 files. In > > > trying to fix it, or in just running 10.0, you corrupted something > > > in the 9.2 files so 9.2 doesn't work either. > > > > Ok thats a reasonable explanition. So the solution is to reformat hdb > > and reinstall 10.0 to hda. A question if I may is there an easy way > > to transfer windows to hdb (dosent sound like there is). I cant > > reinstall windows because each time I have I have to spend 3 or 4 > > days because viruses sneek in while downloading the virus > > definations. Thanks for your input Richard I think you are right. > > Send us details of exactly how the two disks are partitioned - use > diskdrake - and the contents of the two /etc/fstab files. I thought you > said that you removed XP. > > It may still be possible to rescue at least one disk. > I don't fancy your chances in moving Windows, but you shouldn't have to. > If you don't re-partition the disks it can stay where it is. > > -- > Richard Urwin > No I didnt remove windows yet I have to use it to talk to you for now. I did erase the slave and converted it to fat32. I will use it for my music partition. While I would like to reduce the windows part by half I dont have anything that would do that and I cant take the chance of trashing it right now. I still have 65GB that should be enough to get 10.0 running. The 9.2 installation is trashed I ran e2fsck -b 6 times and the way I figure it there should be only 3 fs on the disk with windows 4 but it shoulnt touch a NTFS. I will reinstall 10.0rc1 on the main disk, as soon as I figure out what part's I want to create. This on balance was a learning experience and should teach me to do it right the first time. Funny it hasent worked yet. Thanks for your theory it appears to be correct. Regards; Hoyt
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