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| 51408 | 2002-05-29 05:30:00 | Are you out there Frank... (or any other Linux persons). I have a pc which has Windows and Linux on it. I have decided to remove windows (whats that cheering...) so made the fat partition a ext2 partition. When I rebooted Linux (Mandrake 8.0) we had a kernel panic (oh dear!). I presume the the disk partitions (is it hda, hdb etc) have changed and confused it. Advice please. Thanks. | Guest (0) | ||
| 51409 | 2002-05-29 05:56:00 | Assuming that you have one HD, the partitions would have been hda1(windows), (maybe hda2), hda4 (extended), then hda5, hda6 ... as the logical partitions inside hda4. The boot process for Linux should not have been affected, unless the boot manager was destroyed. The information shown on the screen as you boot should show what Linux sees as the disk structure. Where did you have lilo or grub installed? If it was in the windows partition boot area that could have blown up ... Can you use your repair floppy and reconfigure lilo and reinstall it? |
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| 51410 | 2002-05-29 12:09:00 | A rescue diskette will hopefully help. Failing that, tomsrtbt, linux on a floppy or similar should be able to help. General theory would to be boot from floppy mount your HDD root partition chroot to your HDD root mount any other required partitions rebuild lilo/grub/whatever Hope this helps |
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