Re: [newbie] bad superblock

2004-03-06 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:50, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I installed 9.2 for a friend of mine and everything went smoothly. I even updated it completely. His computer had a Windows partition and I decided to turn it into a /home

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 21:00 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:06:14 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilo. This worked but when I booted into 10.0

Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howabout this for a theory: You installed 10.0 on the second disk while it was the only disk in the machine, and therefore was hda. Your mount table, which specifies which disk partitions are mapped

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 4:36 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I wish I had a program to reduce the windows part to half its size but I'll have to live with it. The standard method is: Defragment Windows, do not select optimise layout (or similar) diskdrake now allows you to shrink the windows partition.

Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 04:39 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad Superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 6:35 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Howabout this for a theory

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 04:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 4:36 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I wish I had a program to reduce the windows part to half its size

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 5:52 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Disk hda #1 Windows XP(NTFS 46.57GB) #2 Boot (for 9.2 63MB) #3 Root(9.2 64.65GB) #4 Swap(518MB) Disk hdb #1 Music(formatted as fat32 27.96GB) I would: 1) copy anything you don't want to lose (like the contents of /home) to Music. 2)

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 07:12 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock On Saturday 28 Feb 2004 5:52 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Disk hda #1 Windows XP(NTFS 46.57GB) #2 Boot (for 9.2 63MB) #3

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 01:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock Assuming you are using ext2 or ext3, superblock backup copies are stored in several places on the disk, mke2fs tells you

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-27 Thread Raffaele Belardi
or ext3 (the default installation). It's not much, I hope others have better ideas. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 01:42 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock Assuming

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 08:44 Subject: Re: [newbie] Bad superblock Hoyt, Let me recap to see if I understand correctly: - the grub menu presents you with two installations, 9.2 and 10.0

Re: [newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:06:14 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lilo. This worked but when I booted into 10.0 there was an error which I couldnt clear or get around so master reset was pushed to get out of the system. On rebooting to 9.2 several times I noticed scroll past on the

[newbie] Bad superblock

2004-02-26 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Could someone please tell me in detail how to repair a superblock with a rescue disk in Mandrake 9.2. I tried to run fsck with the rescue disk but that didnt work (command not found). Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com