On Tuesday 10 February 2004 12:37, Marc Resnick wrote: > Well I now realize what I did, which is a start. And I do remember the > sizes and names. At the start of the extended partition was hda5. It was > about 5 gb, and was my main partition for Linux. Next came my swap. It was > pretty small, probably 1 gb or less. Then came my root partition which was > about 3 gb I think. After I messed around with it, I added a 3gb partition > to the beginning of the extended partition. Should I have added it to the > end?
That would've been a better option. This leaves as a possibility of resetting your / (root) partition to hda6 in the bootloader (so it can find your "/boot" directory), but would probably mess up the other schemes in /etc/fstab if it did load (it should load with a bunch of errors none the same). To test you could make yourself a slackware9.1 boot floppy(bare.i usually) and when that loads type "bare.i root=/dev/hda6 noinitrd ro" at the boot prompt. If it doesn't "panic" but loads your mandrake; you're in business and will be able to recreate lilo from there!:) Another option is to simply delete the partition you created and have everything renamed to what it was. Frankly I'm not sure whether "(c)fdisk" does that (the renaming/ordering), I know that diskdrake does. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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