Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Thread Eric Huff
fsck won't save my /boot partition: bad superblock. At this point, i think i should fdisk hda6 and copy the /boot from knoppix over to it. Does this make sense? Or should i let the install cd format that section, and do a mini install? Thanks for any advice, eric On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:0

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Thread Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:07 pm, Poogle wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > > * Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030614 08:24]: > > > Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while > > > it runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Fla

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Thread Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:30 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: > * Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030614 08:24]: > > Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it > > runs with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel > > or the onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't eve

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Thread Jan Wilson
* Poogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030614 08:24]: > Always assuming that Knoppix runs on your system, I have it and while it runs > with no problem on my laptop, it doesn't like either the Flat Panel or the > onboard sis630 on my PC, I can't even get it to run in text mode - just an > "out of range"

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > When i get knoppix going, what do i do with the partition? > I assume i would start with fsck? That'll be a good guess. It sort of depends on what you find. > If i can't recover the /boot partition, can i just copy the /boot files > from my othe

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition.. (Hijacked)

2003-06-14 Thread Poogle
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 H:53 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) > > and when i "upgrade" i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has > > errors that the install cd can't fix. > > > > Ok

Re: [newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 2:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > Well, when i reboot, i get kernel panic for no INIT= (i think) > and when i "upgrade" i find that hda6 (which is where /boot is) has errors > that the install cd can't fix. > > Ok, so what should i do now? I have heard people on the list say it

[newbie] I borked my boot partition..

2003-06-14 Thread Eric Huff
Hi folks, Lesson learned today: no resizing of ntfs partitions because all those margaritas are keeping you from sleeping... Here's what i did: My ntfs partion was hda1, /boot hda5 / hda6 I shrunk the ntfs (successfuly) at the cli. I think at this point, it told me that it rename