If rescue was unable to mount your partitions for you, it means it could not find a valid fstab file on any of the partitons which is not a good sign.
Also if the installer was not able to guess where the partitions mount, it is a sign that the file system may be damaged :-( Mounting the partitions manually in the installer should not lose any data so long as you are *very* careful not to allow the partitions to be formatted. Then as you say 'deselect' all the default packages and continue with the install. Did you not define a separate /home partition ? A separate home makes life a lot easier if/when you trash your system. You can just do a reinstall and leave /home unformatted. Perhaps the first thing you ought to try doing is to mount the partitions by hand from the rescue CD The commands mkdir /mnt/rescue mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/rescue will mount the first partition of the Primary master IDE on the mount point /mnt/rescue as an ext3 filesystem. Naturally you will have to select the correct partition numbers and file system type for your installation. If you can successfully mount your partitions you could copy your essential data files over to your Windows partition as a backup before attempting a reinstall. Good luck derek On Wednesday 05 Mar 2003 7:51 pm, Wei Wang wrote: > Many thanks for helping. > > I tried the first choice but when I come up with the partitioning stage, > the partition with Mandrake on it was not mounted. (I mounted one partition > as / and the > other as linux swap). Now they are not mounted at all. If I mount them, > would I lose the data > on it? Should I proceed by mounting them at / and linux swap? If I do > proceed, should I just manually > DESELECT all the packages that are selected in default installation? > > As for the second approach, I've come to the stage where in /mnt/mnt I > could see the windows partitions. (No linux > partition can be seen either here). I couldn't find the lilo.conf file. > Should it be in the first partition which is "win_c" in my case? > Or it's somewhere else? > > Please help! I am writing my final year project and I have all my coding > there without a backup(I know it's > a mistake not backup them). > > > Many thanks, > > Wei > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:04 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux loading... after kernel compilation > > > On Tuesday 04 Mar 2003 1:38 pm, Wei Wang wrote: > > > I have Mandrake 9.0 and just recompiled the kernel. The compilation > > > gave out some kind of "kernel panic" error. > > > After I rebooted the machine, I get: > > > > > > Linux Loading ......... > > > > > > with either the "linux" boot or the "custom2419" boot. > > > > > > It looks like grub or lilo is messed up. I don't have a floppy driver > > > in > > my > > > > laptop so can't boot from there. > > > > > > Actually someone asked this about a year ago but he got this error > > > after upgrading the kernel while I was simply > > > compiling the kernel. But the answers to that were contradictory: > > > One suggestion is to do a MOCK INSTALL and NOT an upgrade with the > > > installation CDs. > > > The other suggestion is to do an UPDATE and NOT an install. > > > > > > What should I do? Use the installation CDs to do a MOCK INSTALL or > > UPGRADE? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > > > Wei > > > > Installing again without selecting any packages will recover your system > > again, and involves minimal effort. > > > > Another way of recovering is to boot from your install CD and at the > > first screen hit F1 then type 'rescue' at the prompt. > > You will be presented with a short menu. One of which is to mount your > > partitions. > > You can then find your hard disc files under /mnt and you can have a go > > at repairing your lilo.conf. (Use 'vim-minimal' as an editor) > > It is likely that the symlinks for 'initrd' and 'vmlinuz' have become > > broken > > > when you compiled your kernel. > > > > The command > > lilo -v -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf > > will rewrite lilo to your bootsector > > > > HTH > > derek > > > > -- > > ---------------------------------- > > www.jennings.homelinux.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- ---- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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