Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote on 2001/10/10 Wed PM 05:19:11 EDT To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: Kernel panic: VFS
>Now, if you want to remove lilo from the hard drive, you can do this by >booting from a DOS boot disk, and running "fdisk /mbr". This will >replace the lilo loader with the stock Windows boot loader. In 17 years of DOS I had used fdisk but never knew the /mbr flag, but it worked. But Linux installer complained that there was a partiotion of type 0. W2k's puny Disk Mgmt showed a 55Mb primary partition in addition to the C: primary. But it wouldn't let me do anything to it. I couldn't identify it under DOS 6.02's fdisk. After I backed up data on C: to CD-RW, CD Create offered to format G: (I do have a D:, E: and F: with little on them) so I let it. When I tried to install Linux again, I still got that message. I tried to skip the partition and got "Error - no valid device" to mount fs on. I tried all manner of installs (Expert, Repair, Custom) and got another Kernel Panic message, this time referring to 08:41! My copy of Partition Magic is so old that it doesn't support NT, much less w2k, and I'm not sure I want to spend $50 to upgrade it. I tried NT in hopes that its Disk Mgr. would help, but it crashed. I couldn't install w95 (which I hate anyway) because I couldn't get 6.02 to recognize my SCSI card. I don't know what to do now except wait for a functional replacement disc from IBM (9Gb) or Seagate (6Gb) and perhaps devote one of them to w2k, but then how do I clean up the 18Gb disc so I can use all of it for Linux? John Tiedeman New Orleans, LA _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
