[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 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:

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 would use a

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, snipper 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 can