I too got the same problem as Craig.
Windows is working fine, can't use linux not even failsafe.....
kris....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Hagerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: [newbie] Windows killed Linux- can't find fs
> Hi,
>
> I am in a real bind and am desperatly hoping someone can help me out. I am
> using Mandrake 8 on a laptop with filesystem ReiserFS. Windows (98) is
> installed on it's own partition but I haven't event booted it in about 6
> months. When I did happen to use Windows a couple days ago I went through
> deleting lots of stuff I don't need. Then I decided to defrag the hard
drive
> (thinking that it would only affect the Windows partition) to make sure
> everything was neat and tidy again. The standard defrag utility told me to
> run "scan disc" first to check and repair the drive - so I did. After
about
> an hour or so I was all done. "Scan disc" found and fixed some errors and
> then the defrag app optimized the hard drive. But then when I tried to
boot
> into Linux again i got a strange error just after starting up.
>
> After a page or two of start up messages booting into Linux it stops and
> reports:
>
> "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07"
>
> I get the same result when trying to boot with "failsafe" or with a boot
> floopy. Anyone have any idea what is going on here? I have tried searching
> on the internet but can't come across this problem. Has Windows gone and
> messed up Linux when I used either scan disc or defragment? (By the way
> everything was working PERFECTLY with Linux before I went and tried to do
> all of this housecleaning in Windows.)
>
> Please please tell me there is a way to get everything back - I have 6
> months of work on the Linux partition that I don't want to lose. (I know,
I
> know - I didn't think to back up most of it. But I promise if anyone can
> help me boot in again doing a backup will be the very next thing I do!)
>
> TIA,
>
> Craig Hagerman
>
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