On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
>
It sounds like you may have had a small /boot partition on the first
hard drive. (55M primary partition would work well for that.) Now,
what the Linux installer is complaining about is that there is no room
on your current disk to install Linux on. If you realy do not have
anything on D:, E:, and F:, you can use fdisk in DOS to delete the
logical drives, and then delete the logical partition. You will also
want to delete the 55M primary partition. The reasion you want to use
fdisk in DOS for this is because otherwise you can run into problems
where Windows will still be looking for the partitions you removed.
Depending on how much room you free up, you should be able to install
Linux then.
There are other ways around this, but they involve using the expert
install mode, and you could wipe out your W2K installation. So you are
better off using fdisk from the DOS.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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