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
If you are absolutely sure it's not some hidden partition needed for your system to function, start the Red Hat Linux installer and drop to the CTRL-ALT-F2 bash prompt. From there, and assuming the scsi disk is your only drive, you can do: # mknod /tmp/sda # cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda (start hitting CTRL-C until you return to a command prompt) Then reboot and restart the installer. All of the old partition information ought to be completely nuked (along with everything else on the disk). -- Chris Kloiber, RHCE Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc. [root@earth root]# rm -rf /bin/laden _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
