Re: Lost linux partition
on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:11AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel Panic: No root file system. I do have debian rescue disk under the c: and I try to boot from there I get a consolebut running lilo has no meaning here I am afraid its lost for ever... does NAV back up the partition table before repairing? Kundan You probably have to reconstruct your partition table(s) from hand. This is why I make a practice of printing my partition tables and placing them in a prominant location within my (hardcopy) system logbook. I'll also occasionally post them online, frequently in the guise of a partitioning howto g. Yes, I've had to reconstruct my own partition tables from hand. And, if you haven't taken this preperatory step, you'll find proceeding to be somewhat more difficult. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpj1r3yto7Su.pgp Description: PGP signature
Lost linux partition
dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan
Re: Lost linux partition
Kundan, It ain't destroyed first off. Get your boot diskette out (you DID build a boot diskette right!). Boot on it, and rerun lilo. Should get you back on dualboot in seconds. If you don't have your boot diskette, fetch toms root boot ... I just checked my local archives, and for whatever reason, I don't have the URL for your, but it totally rocks. Let me know if you simply can't find it - I burned it on a cd here somewhere. tatah On Thursday 01 March 2001 07:06, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
Re: Lost linux partition
I think all you need to do is boot off a disk. I generally have a couple around, I make once once in awhile when compiling a new kernel. If you don't have a kernel on a disk, you can (I believe) download one. I think they're made as part of doing a disk install, and you could download the images in Windows, write to a floppy via the instructions on the debian site, and then boot off that. Once you've done so, just rerun lilo and hopefully you'll be ok. Look for the disk images for a rescue disk I think. P.S. nice work getting windows installed in 13mb. =] On Thu Mar 01/2001 @ 11:03:P +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tyler Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost linux partition
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan If you're using LILO; boot from a linux-floppy and re-run lilo... HTH Greetz Jos Lemmerling
RE: Lost linux partition
I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel Panic: No root file system. I do have debian rescue disk under the c: and I try to boot from there I get a consolebut running lilo has no meaning here I am afraid its lost for ever... does NAV back up the partition table before repairing? Kundan -Original Message- From: Jos Lemmerling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:40 PM To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: Lost linux partition On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: dear all, My system is (was) dual boot with debian on a partition of 5 Mb and windows on the other 13 Mb. Everything was working fine till I ran the norton-antivirus on a file. NAV reported that the boot partition has been changed and this is a virus like activity. I was just out of mind and asked it to repair... which led to distruction of the last partition table. Now the debian can't boot. What can I do, how can i regain the last partition table? Any help will be greatly appreciated Kundan If you're using LILO; boot from a linux-floppy and re-run lilo... HTH Greetz Jos Lemmerling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost linux partition
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:11AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: | I boot from boot floppy only, no lilo... and the boot floppy stratightaway | loads the kernel without any lilo prompt.. and then gets stuck at Kernel | Panic: No root file system. | I do have debian rescue disk under the c: and I try to boot from there I | get a consolebut running lilo has no meaning here | I am afraid its lost for ever... does NAV back up the partition table before | repairing? | Kundan | It's still not lost forever, just that lilo needs the partition table to figure out where linux is. (Note to others, NAV overwrote the *partition table*, not the MBR) Boot with your debian rescue disk. At the console, run fdisk and set the partition table the way it was before. Exactly the way it was before. Don't do any sort of partition initialization because that would destroy the data on the disk. (AFAIK fdisk will only change the partition table itself) Then boot again from your boot floppy. LILO/the kernel should then be able to figure out where the root filesystem is. HTH, -D
