Rodolfo wrote:

> Some months ago I took off another 10 GB from my MS Windows partition
> and created a second linux partition besides the one I already had
> on my PC, and installed Mandrakelinux 10.1 there (the old one
> was 9.1). But I didn't know all the things one has to be careful to
> when installing a second linux operating system, (things I learned
> later), so I did mistakes. Probably I installed the second linux partition
> in the master boot record instead of the first sector of the root partition,
> and also other mistakes. Anyway, after installing the second linux partition,
> the old one wouldn't start any more, although I can access all its filesystem
> from the new one.
>
> Now I wonder if there is some rescue way to resuscitate the old partition
> and make it start again.
> Maybe in properly editing /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf the possible solution?
>
> [...]
>
> Now the old 9.1 partition can start, finally.
> However, something is still wrong with it.
> In fact every operation, also the log in, is very slow,
> and even the mouse is trembling and moving slowly.
>
> Maybe the problem is kernel related. In fact, when I log in,
> the system comes up as 10.1 Community, but with the old 2.4.x kernel
> (the one included in Mandrake 9.1). It's a sort of a monstruos (10.1)-(9.1) 
> mixture.
>
> Maybe the partition could be healed if I installed the new 2.6.x kernel?
> I did: `# urpmi kernel-source-2.6', and the installation was performed:
> a new directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1-10mdk was created,
> but now I don't know how to go on.



SnapafunFrank wrote:

> To help us help you, how about you post here your lilo.conf and the
> result of the " df -h " command


I already attached in my previous message the two lilo.conf,
the one from the `master' partition and the one from the `sick' one.
Here's the output of: `$ df -h':

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5             2.5G  1.9G  515M  79% /
/dev/hda1              17G  4.5G   13G  27% /mnt/windows
/dev/hda7             9.7G  4.1G  5.1G  45% /mnt/linux2
/dev/hda8             2.5G  2.2G   98M  96% /mnt/linux3
/dev/hda9             2.5G  2.1G  214M  91% /mnt/linux4
/dev/hda10            2.6G  798M  1.7G  33% /mnt/linux5

. Thanks indeed,
Rodolfo




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