I guess, diskdrake should warn at least (or even better refuse to do) changes if they result in existing partition numbers change. I presume that is exactly what happened for this poor guy:
(I would insert message id but our nice tools do not allow - at least in this case - copy and paste between Knode and Evolution). ================================================ Hello, After using diskdrake to change my partition layout I cannot boot Mandrake (8.1) anymore. - It says: Mount: error 22 mounting ext3 well, retrying read-only without any flags Mount: error 22 mounting ext3 pivotroot: pivot(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2 kernel panic: No init found. try passing init= option to kernel - What I did: I wanted to steal some space from a 2GB fat32 filesystem (so called D: drive in windows). First I cleared this partition then I started diskdrake and build two new partitions from it. One 1GB new fat32 one and a 1GB ext2 filesystem. This seemed okay for Diskdrake all it asked was one reboot. After booting I never saw Mandrake again. Any help before I try something stupid again ? - dangerous comment More and more I have my doubts about some Mandrake gui utilities. They look good in the beginning and are very tempting to use but sometimes they are beginning to look and act as M$ too much :-( to me that is)
