From: Alan McLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation trouble with latest CVS
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 09:41:27 -0600
> When I first tried to manually boot Debian via GRUB command line
> I did get VFS error with the root partition. After reinstalling
> LILO in the MBR and in the first sector of the root partition it
> came back to life.
This is probably because you just didn't specify the root partition.
> I have Win98 on hda1 (wifes ;-), Debian on hda2-hda10. The root
> partition is on hda2. Win98 also seems to be OK, did embed limit
> its fun to the MBR and the 1st sector of the root partion (hda2)?
> In other words, do you think the 1st partion, hda1, was untouched?
No. The first partition (or some files in it) was corrupted without
doubt.
> OK. Although, I'm happy to help test GRUB. I have a pretty vanilla
> setup, 2 8.4G IDE disks, and a 540M IDE on another machine. I'm just
> starting to study the code, so hopefully I will be more useful in that
> regard next time.
Great. If you can test the current, please do. I'm now setting up my
environment, and that will not be finished soon.
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