Re: [newbie] boot trouble after creating new partition

2003-09-10 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:45:39 +0800 "adam brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi there, > any help on getting my linux boot working again would be greatly > appreciated. > > thanks in advance. > > a.b. > -- What version of PM first of all? XP w/ or w/out SP 1? Can you boot to XP? if you ca

Re: [newbie] boot trouble after creating new partition

2003-09-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 10 Sep 2003 12:41 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:45, adam brown wrote: > > label="linux" > > root=/dev/hda6 > > there's your problem. > lilo is looking / in /dev/hda6 (which it used to be before you added an > extra partition) but is now /dev/hda7 > > I

Re: [newbie] boot trouble after creating new partition

2003-09-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 10 September 2003 12:45, adam brown wrote: > label="linux" > root=/dev/hda6 there's your problem. lilo is looking / in /dev/hda6 (which it used to be before you added an extra partition) but is now /dev/hda7 I would use a Slackware boot floppy (or cdrom) and give it the options:

[newbie] boot trouble after creating new partition

2003-09-10 Thread adam brown
hi there, i've installed mandrake 9.1 on my laptop as a dual boot with win xp. i recently created a new partition with partition magic after my linux partition and this seems to have screwed up my linux boot. booting to linux i get this: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,6) mount: error

Re: [newbie] boot trouble

2001-07-13 Thread Jordan Triebwasser
ssage - From: Myers, Dennis R NWO To: 'Jordan Triebwasser' ; 'Newbie Linux-Mandrake' Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:46 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] boot trouble I see a similarity in a problem I had a while back. New ram installed, windows is tolerant of bad ram, linux is not. try

RE: [newbie] boot trouble

2001-07-13 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] boot trouble I see a similarity in a problem I had a while back. New ram installed, windows is tolerant of bad ram, linux is not. try swapping your ram sticks around, better yet run a memory check, there are several on line for free. But swapping memory sticks will tell

Re: [newbie] boot trouble

2001-07-13 Thread etharp
was the box moved while it was off? does it (or can you set the BIOS so that it does) run the memory test at boot (before any hard drives are seen)? counting all the mem? maybe a memeory chip is loose in the socket? maybe lilo is lunched... but you should still let the memory be counted at boo

Re: [newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > Hello > > > > I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. > > I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to > > tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is

Re: [newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: > In a message dated 9/16/99 1:55:11 PM Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << boot with rescue disk, fix lilo to point at the right root= change > /etc/fstab to mount the right root. ta da all done > >> > But what if don't have the rescue d

Re: [newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread Richard Adams
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: > Hello > > I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. > I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to > tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now, > how can I do

Re: [newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread DuBose8
In a message dated 9/16/99 1:55:11 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << boot with rescue disk, fix lilo to point at the right root= change /etc/fstab to mount the right root. ta da all done -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/

Re: [newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. > I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to > tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now,

[newbie] Boot Trouble

1999-09-16 Thread DuBose8
Hello I installed another flavor of Linux, and now cannot get back into Mandrake. I've booting into from floppy, but the partition table has changed. I need to tell it at the boot prompt that the boot part is at hda5 instead of hda6 now, how can I do this if its possible? Thanks Scott