One bizarre option you might try - if you just want to recover data and it
is vital - try finding an Amiga, plug your hd in to it and run... oh drat my
mind is a blank, there is a file system on aminet that allows you to mount
unix/linux partitions and read from them. Last time I used this 8 months
ago there was another version that reads AND writes.
Does anyone know what the file system is that I'm thinking of? I'll check
my old notes and see if I still have the name somewhere.
Just a suggestion...
Daryl Johnson
Proplan Associates
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> Sent: 10 March 2001 06:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] kernel panic, can not mount root fs
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>
> (I'm not saying that you necessarily have to re-install, but I have no
> further suggestions as to how to recover your linux data)
>
> There's no need to add any extra partitions between Windows and Linux
> partitions. You just need to make sure that when you do your install,
> that you install Windows first. It is not necessary to partition your
> drive first, but you can. I've done it both ways: partitioning before,
> and after windows install, and both were successful.
>
> After you do the install, make sure you've defragged the disk in
> windows, and then you can partition during your linux install.
>
> I strongly recommend, after you install linux, that you reboot back
> into windows to make sure that it has properly recognised the space you
> allocated to it in its partition. That's the only problem with Windows,
> is that it may not recognise the partitions. It took over a year before
> windows would recognise the new partitions when it happened to me. go
> figure.
>
>
> > well i agree windows has screwed up your partitions,
> > you may be able to use partition commander to repair the damage, but
> as for salvaging your data, most likely only windows data can be
> salvaged, im unsure how to salvage data from linux partitions, the
> cause seems to be that when windows was writing to a partition it
> misread the data table and over extended the partition it was writing
> to ontop of another partition which happens to be your /root partition.
> > maybe you should add a small extended partition between your linux
> and windows partitions. that way you may have a small buffer of
> protection against windows write errors like the one you encountered,
> another thought is using vmware, however if you intend to log online
> with windows using a virtual machine such as vmware would be a bad idea.
> >
> > have fun!
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds to me like Windows didnt recognise your partitions properly,
> and
> > > installed over the root partition of Linux.
> > >
> > > I've had this happen to me before. The only solution that I found
> was to
> > > re-install the whole lot, both OS's, making sure that windows
> recognised
> > > the partitions that were allocated to it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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