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advise - linux file system problem
Hi,
I am in a need for advise:
Am I going to re-install Linux or can I fix it ?
The story:
I have run the DOS scndsk command and let it perform a surface
check on a shared DOS/Linux disk. I was surprised to note many BAD
clusters (about 4000 out of 47000) and let scandsk mark them BAD
wrong already ????).
The next time I tried load linux (LILO is on another (master) disk) it
failed to load the file system which is located in a separate patition
on the disk. It said:
HPES: hpfs_read_super: Not HPFS
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01
I booted from boot diskette and the partition table indeed showed
that the Linux partion was un-recognized:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0 0 0 0 0 ??????????
/dev/hda2 591 591 651 30744 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 659 652 1057 204624 82 DOS 16-bit >=32M
I turned to look at /dev/hdb and after going back to /hda and
asking for 'verify', all of the sudden the linux partion showed
up saying:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 590 297329+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 591 591 651 30744 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 659 652 1057 204624 82 DOS 16-bit >=32M
So I wrote the table using the 'w' command and tried booting once
again but to no avail. I received the same panic error as before.
Thanks Zachi
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Isaac Miller,
E-mail: either - zachi@netvision.net.il
or - zachi@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
Phone : 972-3-6730140 Fax : 972-3-6730492
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