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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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