Hi everybody,
I messed up my system this weekend and hope one or more the kind souls on this list will help me fix my mistake.
Previously I was running Debian 'Potato' on a P100 with 24Mb RAM, 540 Mb Harddrive, 16 Mb Voodoo3 video card and a Packard Bell 14/15 inch monitor.
I recently was given a CTX VL700 17 inch monitor (which by the way is awesome), and also d/l 'Woody' from stable.
The Woody install went swell, KDE looked great but was as slow as molasses in january. so I deceided to switch to Gnome before I made the switch my son
needed video for his computer (I was borrowing his video card because I wanted to know the joy of Linux @[EMAIL PROTECTED] color depth =).
Here's what happened, I removed the Voodoo3 video card to put in my sons computer that had NO video and decided to use
the onboard 1 Mb CirrusLogic video in 8-bit mode. Thats when the trouble started the screen went all splotchy black stripes every where, menu items are visible until you click them then they become just black squares. So im thinking it must be xfree-4 thats having trouble with the video card, i'll just reinstall potato until i can get a better video card.
Popped in the rescue disk for potato and rebooted the system, popped in the root disk when asked, i then received an error message that said
kernal panic fs not found on 02.00 upon trying to reboot into woody i received a similar message.
what i would like to do is reformat the hard disk, but i dont know if or where the program is to do this.
is it fdisk? or something else? the format command wasn't recognised. do i need DOS disks?
any help is appreciated,
thanks in advance
mw.
cfdisk or fdisk will allow you to partition your drives mkfs will allow you to format your partitions
No, you don't need DOS disks.
This being *nix, you can recover. Of course, that takes some work, so if you don't have anything you want to keep, and you don't mind doing a format/rebuild, that might be easier. In such a case, I'd just boot off the Debian install disk (Woody or Potato) and use the "Partition a Disk" (which will be cfdisk) and just go through the normal installation.
If you want to recover, try booting off a Debian install disk with the kernel paramaters something like:
boot: linux root=/dev/hda2
Of course, this depends on where / is, and how badly messed up things are, etc. Knoppix could also be useful, as well as a kernel parameter like "init=/bin/bash" for a very minimal setup, and chroot might be of value to easily rerun lilo in it's "native" environment, etc.
Kent
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