did windows kill my linux?
This is so weird! I'm a very new user, got Linux working with the help
of this group, using Lilo to boot Windows in the first partition (HDA1),
and Linux in HDA3 (swap) and HDA4 (file system). I left HDA5 as DOS Fat
16, but am not using it for anything yet.
I just installed Wordperfect 6.0 under Windows. (Not ready to try it
under Linux yet.) When it started up a tutorial popped up on the screen
and I went through a demo of some of the features. Big Mistake! The
program seemed to go into some kind of endless loop, and I could only
get out of it by killing the task.
Now when I try to boot Linux I get the following:
Partition check: HDA: HDA1 HDA2 < HDA5 > HDA3 HDA4
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=2, limit=1
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
attempt to access beyond end of device
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock
[MS-DOS FS Rel 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022,
bmap]
[me=0x0, cs=0, #f=0, fs=0, fl=0, ds=0, de=0, data=0, se=0, ts=0, ls=0,
rc=0, fc=4294967295]
transaction block size=512
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=33, limit=1
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 03:02 iso-blknum 16 block 32
kernel panic: vfs: unable to mount root fs on 03:02
I guess Wordperfect probably doesn't work well under Windows. Could it
have "gone nuts" and written stuff beyond the end of the Windows
partition?
I'll just re-install Linux since I haven't used it for much of anything
yet. But I'd really like to know what went wrong. I was hoping that
anything that happened in the Windows partition couldn't affect Linux in
its own partition, like viruses, programs running amok, etc. Any
thoughts on this?
Peter
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