All right. Being the newbie that I am, I hosed my boot partition. I have backup, on a loopfile, which itself is contained in a loopfile, on my windows partition. Both of these loopfiles use sparse-superblocks. I can't load any of my partitions or loopfiles in tomsrtbt, and I have the latest version from the web page. I do have the distribution rescue disk, but that doesn't support vfat or loopback devices. I could dd the file onto a partition and juggle the rescue disks, but that is very complicated and easy to screw up. Anyone want to tell me how to enable sparse-superblocks support in toms, or help me get my /boot back? Disk outlay: hda1 - Win partition hda2 - extended partition hda3 - compaq system tools hda5 - windows partition, contains archives and copy of win95 cd for when I feel like shooting myself in the foot hda6 - former /boot hda7 - root partition hda8 - linux swap There is free space between hda6 and hda7. I was trying to use the ext2resize program, but to do that, you have to resize the partition first, and I had to move the /boot. Now that I have wasted bandwidth, and talked way too much, anyone wanna help me? ----------------------------------------------- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com
