Thanks for the quick reply, Raffaele. I don't know how it was fixed, but fixed it is. I did as you suggested, but wasn't sure what to choose from the rescue menu, so I went for 'mount your partitions'. It found the old 8.2 kernel, and said that my partitions were already mounted, and returned me to the menu. I didn't know what to do next, so I chose reboot.
It started up and I selected 9.0 from lilo, which is the one from before I installed win4lin - just in case there was a problem on the win4lin stanza. It booted fine, so I shutdown and rebooted on win4lin, as I usually do, and everything seems fine. I'd still like to know what could have caused the problem, if anyone has any ideas. But thanks for your help - it's saved my sanity. This box does odds and ends, but my linux box has my life on it. I'm shutting this one down now and going back to my own. Anne >-- Original Message -- >Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:49:11 +0100 >From: Raffaele Belardi <raffaele> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] HELLLLPPP!! >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Can your BIOS let you boot from the CDROM? If so, at the MDK splash >screen hit F1 and then type rescue. It should load a clean kernel image >from the cdrom and present you with a menu. I don't remember exacly >where, but at some point it will run fscheck (or let you do it manually) > >on your partitions which may solve your problem. > >I have no idea of what is the problem you are experiencing. Corrupted >boot partition, maybe? > >good luck > >raffaele > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Something has gone wrong on my box overnight. It was OK when I left it, >> but first thing this morning I found that Konq froze when I tried to access >> one of my fat32 partitions. I had to kill Konq. >> >> I then started shutdown, but it hung. I have tried booting from my rescue >> disk, and booting 'linux failsafe', but each time I get >> >> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 01000112 >> *pde=00000000 >> Oops:0000 >> CPU:0 >> EIP 0010:[<e0857061>] Not tainted >> EFLAGS: 00010282 >> eax: ... lots of entries like this >> Process scsi_eh_1 (pid 303, stackpage=dfd15000 >> Stack ......lots of figure >> Call Trace: lots more >> Code: one screen-width of entries, then it freezes >> >> >> How can I get out of this? It's humiliating to have to use this old windows >> box to ask <g> >> >> Anne > > > >Attachment: message.footer >
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