Hi Frank and all!
> anyway, what exactly is the problem when you try to boot? The systems boots up but a lot of messages error appear. I can run linux: / and /usr are mounted but /home and /files (where I keep a large amount of personnal files) are not mounted. I can use linux as a user but the user's directory is not there... /mnt/windows/ (c:/ drive) is mounted properly but /mnt/windows2/ (d:/ drive) is not. D:/ incidentally mysteriously stopped one day being recognized by windows too so that I cannot access this partition either through windows nor through linux... > if you can't get it sussed, boot from the mandrake CD, and do an > /expert/upgrade and after it > has run though, it should have fixed your problem.. After having unsuccesfully tried to solve the problem for a while, I decided to reinstall completely in expert mode, just reformating / and /usr... but the installer couldn't read the partition table meaning that I would have needed to erase every thing in order to repartition the disk... No need to tell you that I promptly quit the install program. Thanks for replying. :-D Anguo ----- Original Message ----- ±H¥óªÌ: Franki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Frist, you shouldn't post in html, it annoys people who may not answer in > response to that.. > and its more annoying because my reply is now probably html as well. I am very surprised that you received the mail in html since I am usually careful to send plain text (the default for my mail client is plain text). Also the original of the message below that I forwarded is also plain text. Your reply came to me as plain text too... Anyway, I am sorry if I mixed up something somewhere... (I hope that this one is properly send in plain text). > -----Original Message----- > Dear Experts, > > > I tried to get help on the following topic on the newbie list but my > question seems to advanced for the group. > I also did some research on google, read some howtos and some mailing list > archives but so far, the more I read, the more I am confused. :-( > Since the matter involves the potential loss of a large amount of data, I > really would care to get some informed advice. > Thank you for any help (and thank you anyway if you can't help me or don't > have time to... ). :-D > > (using lm8.1) > > In the following HOWTO: > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition-Rescue/x67.html > > I see that the result of fdisk gives a listing of the following format: > > Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 523 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 153 1228941 83 Linux > /dev/hdb2 154 166 104422+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hdb3 * 167 291 1004062+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb4 295 523 1839442+ 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 295 422 1028128+ 83 Linux > /dev/hdb6 423 523 811251 6 FAT16 > > Mine however looks much stranger: > > #fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > Id System > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 1734988+ > b Win95 FAT32 > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 > 83 Linux > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 > 5 Extended > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 > 83 Linux > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 401593+ > 82 Linux swap > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 6136798+ > 83 Linux > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 1253901899 > 29 Unknown > > I can't use Linux now. > Do you know where does the problem come from and how I could solve it??? > > I just stumbled on this: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mandrake-Linux/message/1445 > "for my hard drive (hda), I have the following symlinks: > /dev/hda ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > /dev/hda1 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > /dev/hda2 ---> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 > and so on." > but i don't know if it is relevant at all... > > And also following a link from google, I find this quote: > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/SGI/xfs/Release-1.0/RH7.1-SGI-XFS-1.0/RedHat/RP > MS/devfsd-1.3.11-sgi.i386.html > "(DiskDrake won't like /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 instead of > /dev/hda1 ...)" > I used diskdrake to add one partition and my problems started (not > immediately) after that... > The rest of the page doens't give anything helpful though... > > I am puzzleder and puzzleder. > > > > thanks, > > > Anguo > > > > > > > > Below is the background information from my previous posts. > > > > > > > Linux doesn't mount /home and other important partitions at boot. It > does > > > mount / and /usr though... > > > It does mount win98 c:/ but not d:/ .... win98 can't read d:/ anymore. > > > There seems to be a problem with my partition table... > > > > > > I am still investigating how I can solve the problem. I found the > > partition > > > rescue mini howto which may or may not be relevant in my case. > > > I'll look more for the answer but if anyone knows where the problem is > and > > > could give me some pointers, I'd be grateful. > > > > Would you please post the content of "cat /etc/fstab" > > > /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > > /dev/hda7 /archive ext2 defaults 1 2 > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda9 /files ext2 defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > > user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 > > /dev/hda10 /mnt/windows2/ vfat umask=0 0 0 > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/hda4 /redhat ext2 defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 > > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > > > #df -h > > > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > > /dev/hda2 587M 133M 424M 24% / > > > none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm > > > /dev/hda1 1.7G 1.5G 236M 87% /mnt/windows > > > /dev/hda4 2.9G 4.0k 2.7G 1% /redhat > > > /dev/hda6 5.8G 1.6G 3.9G 29% /usr > > > > > > > > > #fdisk -l > > > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > > cylinders > > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > > Id System > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 1 216 > 1734988+ > > > b Win95 FAT32 > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 217 292 610470 > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 293 2846 20515005 > > > 5 Extended > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 2202 2583 3068415 > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 293 342 > 401593+ > > > 82 Linux swap > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 343 1106 > 6136798+ > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? 224061 112815 > 1253901899 > > > 29 Unknown > > > > > > #fdisk -l -u > > > > > > Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 > > > cylinders > > > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes > > > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks > > > Id System > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 * 63 3470039 > 1734988+ > > > b Win95 FAT32 > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 3470040 4690979 610470 > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 4690980 45720989 20515005 > > > 5 Extended > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 35359065 41495894 3068415 > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 4691043 5494229 > 401593+ > > > 82 Linux swap > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 5494293 17767889 > 6136798+ > > > 83 Linux > > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7 ? -695433982 1812369815 > > 1253901899 > > > 29 Unknown > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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