eric jackson wrote: >Hi, > >I suspect I really messed things up yesterday! > >I ran Norton's Disk Doctor's Scan Disk program on the drive where I have my >Linux set-up. I didn't really intend on doing that. I was just thinking >about defraging my Windows stuff. It didn't occur to me that it would affect >my Linux set-up. My Windows stuff appears to be okay. > >I get this error message when I try to boot Mandrake 8.2: > >Ext3-fs- unable to read superblock >mount: error 22 mounting Ext3 flags noatime >well, retrying without the options flags >(a repeat of line 1) >(a repeat of line 2 without the words flags noatime) >well, retrying read only without any flags >(a repeat of line 1) >(a repeat of line 2 without the words flags noatime) >pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed :2 >kernel panic: no init found. try passing inits option to kernel > >In Windows, Norton Disk Doctor wanted to rebuild the boot table but it does >that by searching for extended Dos partitions. I told it to leave my drive >alone. I figured I'd ask here for advice first! > >Eric > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Drop in your CD#1 install and hit F1 at the splash screen then type
rescue and try re-running LILO. It appears that Norton did something to the pointer in the MBR It may also have renumbered partitions which has catastrophic effects on linux installs. I just discovered that XP installation CAN and WILL renumber partitions and wreck a working linux system So if rerunning LILO from rescue does not do the trick a fresh install may be necessary This could happen if the partitions were renumbered so that say /dev/hda7 was pointing at / and now points at the swap partition or something similar... Civileme
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