On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:07:14AM -0400, me wrote: > Hi all--- > > I'm new to Linux, and in the process of hacking cluelessly with my > hard-drive setup I've managed to trash some vital part of my hard drive. > Here's the general setup: > > /dev/hda1 (~100MB) Win95, formerly bootable, formerly DOS > /dev/hda2 (~16MB) linux swap > /dev/hda3 (~200mb) linux main: bootable, mounted as / > /dev/hda4 (0) > /dev/hda5 (~75mb) linux /var > /dev/hda6 (~250mb) linux /usr > > a few days ago, i was hacking on something (LILO?), and flipped the > "bootable" flag on /dev/hda1 to OFF. I also changed /dev/hda1 from a DOS > partition to a Win95 FAT16 LBA partition, not thinking that this might > pose a problem. (/dev/hda1 has win95 loaded on it, but I corrupted all the > long filenames when I was repartitioning it. when it was labeled as a DOS > partition, I could get into it using linux.) cfdisk returned an error as > it was trying to write; silly me, i didn't write down what it said, but i > figured nothing was seriously wrong. I rebooted. when I rebooted, I got an > error: > > Kernel Panic: [something to the effect of, this drive's f*ed up] 03:01
<MORAL> NEVER play with the partitions on a system without making a backup! </MORAL> <MORAL2> Always mount a scratch monkey </MORAL2> (yes I read the jargon file too much) Have you tried looking at it in normal fdisk? How AFU is the partition table? > I looked around and found a rootboot disk on the net (tomsrtbt), dutifully > created it using another computer, and booted from a floppy. (My Debian > rootboot disk wasn't working, still isn't, dunno why. <sigh>) Using a boot > floppy, I can mount and read /dev/hda3 just fine, but I can't seem to run > any of the binaries on it. (for example, cfdisk). I can't get into > /dev/hda1 at all. tomsrtbt is a GREAT disk but...alas it is libc5 and thusly can't run glibc binaries (libc6). try cd'ing to the directory where /dev/hda3 is mounted and chroot . bash this SHOULD give you a shell that can run those binaries. (and its bash too ;)) > So: is there a way to fix the hard drive, and /dev/hda1, without losing > significant amounts of data? If so, what is it? have you tried fsck? I would recommend trying fdisk and seeing what it says...also writting down every error message ;) (btw tomsrtbt should have fdisk) As for the Win95 system... you will probablky need to re-install -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>------------ */ E-mail "Bumper Stickers": "A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both!" "honk if you Love Linux"
