On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:56:06AM -0500, scotty at cloudnet.com wrote: >Jay Kline wrote: >>Is this all on one drive? Or multiple drives? Where is Linux installed on >>the drive? Sounds to me as if partition tragic has b0rken your partition table. Try to boot with a rescue disk and mount each of your partitions. This should lead you to which partition is incorrect. Also it will let you copy off any data you can salvage in case you decide to reinstall. > >Yes, this is all on one drive. lilo is installed in the MBR. The /boot >partition is on hda4. > >Here is part of my lilo.conf file; > > LILO version 21.4-4 > Reading boot sector vrom /dev/hda > merging with /boot/boot.0 > mapping message file: /boot/message > boot image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 > added linux.bak > boot other: /dev/hda2, on /dev/hda, loader /boot/chain.d > added nt > mapping RAM disk /boot/initrd-2.4.9-34.img > added linux * > >Here is the partition layout; > > 31MB EISA Configuration > 55MB /boot hda4 > 9.77GB /usr hda6 > 5.86GB /home hda7 > 3.91GB /var hda8 > 2.98GB / hda9 > 1.95GB /tmp hda10 > 1004MB swap > 1.95GB C: >system > 3.91GB D: > 5.86GB G: > >>I got this error once when I forgot to put in the initrd image. I think it >>can also happen when you use initrd, and / cant be mounted (is this >>correct?) > >The initrd image is in the lilo.conf listing. > >>I assume that since you took a look at the file, everything looks ok in it. >>Try using the -v option to get more output about whats going on. Also, try >> >>lilo -v -C /etc/lilo.conf >> >>and see if that helps. Another one to try before you chroot is >> >>lilo -v -r /mnt/sysimage > >I tried both of these with no effect. > >Attached is a copy of the partition list from the W2k machine. The >reason I got this is I wanted to add more free space to the C: drive. > >Thanks > >-- >cYa > >John > >Don't give up. DON'T EVER GIVE UP!!! > "Jimmy V" > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "If you love something set it free, if it doesn't come back to you hunt it down and set it on fire" -- George Carlin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020815/935e949d/attachment.pgp