On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: > me wrote: > > > thanks, yes, this works, and i can run cfdisk fine. cfdisk works fine. I > > didn't change anything, but i tried to write the partition table, and > > here's the error cfdisk gives: > > > > "Wrote partition table, but re-read table failed. Reboot to update table." > > > > This was what it gave me originally when this whole mess started. > > Well, did you reboot? There's a very good reason fdisk emits that > message. If you don't reboot before making any file system modifications > (mkfs et.al.) there is a good chance that you hose the wrong part of the > disk, since the kernel's idea of the partition layout is then different > from the actual layout.
I rebooted. same thing. here's the output: scsi: 0 hosts. scsi: detected total. [this is usual when it's working.] Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 <hda5 hda6> [MS-DOS FS Ren 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap] [me=0x52, cs=0, #f=81, fs=0, fl=48384, ds=52400, de=55699, data=55972, se=28213, ts=68224, ls=9471, rc=0, fc=4294967295] Transaction block size= 512 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 [HANG] > > Hmm. Why does it think I have 81 FATs on one partition? > > It seems that the file system on /dev/hda1 is hosed :-( though i note that "81" appears in the output above (#f=81). wonder if there's a way to fix this at a low level. no, scratch that, it's probably a Bad Idea. > > yep, i figured so. but right now I can't even get a Win95 boot floppy to > > recognize my C drive (aka /dev/hda1). <sigh> > > Could fips help me with that problem? > > Try removing the broken FAT partition with Linux fdisk. Then boot with > the win95 boot floppy and run DOS fdisk to recreate the FAT > partition--make sure that you have a copy of fdisk.exe on the boot floppy! > It is also a good idea to have a Linux boot floppy handy, just in case... sounds drastic. how likely is it that i'll lose the data on /dev/hda1? (did i mention that during an ftp process, my backup got corrupted, and /dev/hda1 (used to?) contain my only other copy of those files? <sigh>) Talk about learning the hard way. I really need to corrupt that partition as little as possible. -Renee Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] (main) ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarding)
