On 23 Feb 2001, at 9:34, Fergus Daly wrote:
May be this utility will help You:
http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
Bye
Glum
> Tom's list:
>
> I've got a horrible feeling that this might be too grotesque an error to
> recover from:
>
> My 20G hard drive is, or was, dual partitioned 11G : 9G as
>
> hda1 Windows98 FAT-32
> hda2 ex2fs hda5 Linux
> hda6 Linux swap
> hda7 Linux
>
> and booted using LILO. Windows doesn't see hda2 and there have been no
> problems with scandisk (say, or anything else) which just sees a 11G
> C: drive. But
>
> =========================================
> This morning I used Norton Speedisk on C:
> =========================================
>
> Now on selecting Linux from the undestroyed LILO menu at boot, after the
> usual stream of info, now including the line
>
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < >
>
> where previously there was
>
> hda: hda1 hda2 <hda5 hda6 hda7>,
>
> I get the message
>
> VFS: cannot open root device 03:05
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
> Using fdisk 'p' after booting with the rescue floppy gives
>
> /dev/hda1 Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 Extended
>
> where previously there was a happy reference to all of hda2, hda5, hda6,
> hda7.
>
> Anything to be done?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fergus
>
