I have just been rearranging all my partitions, and now it looks like the
most recent change is messing my system. A shortened version of the first
couple post-post lines is:
L 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40
These lines continue not to the point of ad nauseum, but to the point of
infinity. I can boot into my DOS partition with a boot disk, but I can't use
the boot disk that I make earlier for my kernel (a custom compilation of
2.4.16), the partitions have been changed.
I can't alter the settings on my boot floppy as the system with the problem
is the only linux system that I have any access to.
My system is a combination of potato, woody, and sid, that is mostly woody.
The original partitions were somewhere along the lines of:
/dev/hda1 FAT16 1000M
/dev/hda3 Linux ext2 800M
/dev/hda2 Linux swap 200M
The altered partitions are something like:
/dev/hda1 FAT16 100M
/dev/hda2 Linux ext2 900M (this is /usr)
/dev/hda5 Linux ext2 200M (this is /)
/dev/hda6 Linux ext2 200M
/dev/hda7 Linux ext2 200M
/dev/hda8 Linux ext2 200M
/dev/hda4 Linux swap 100M
The problem did not happen after partitioning, or shifting the files from
the old hda3 to the newer hda2, 5-8. It happened after I relocated files
from what would now be /usr/usr to /usr.
I had had some problems with this process earlier on, all being corrected
within minutes.
To my very untrained eye, it looks like some crucial file was corrupted in
that final move (why is it _always_ the last change that kills the system).
Do you know of any way to fix this without reinstalling the entire system?
The only way I can do any installation is by floppy.
Thanks for any help,
Seneca
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