heya, just an idea, if you can see all the directories and mount all your partitions from an emergency boot disk, try re-running lilo and booting again. hth sean On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: > > Something VERY BAD has happened. When I attempted to format the disk, > with > > mkfs.ext3, it reported that the partition table for that partition said 0 > > size, and I should reboot the computer to re-read the partion table. When > I > > rebooted, instead of LILO, I saw an endless stream of "01 " repeating > > without end! I can boot into BIOS, and probably an emergency disk, but > that > > is all. > > > > I can definitely boot into the system with an emergency disk. > I should point out that my emergency disk is the stock 2.2.20 vanilla > kernel, while the current system kernel is 2.4.18-686, also stock. All of > the partions are ext2 or swap on hdb (since hdb5 was never formatted). This > kernel does not have support for my video driver, so I am in console-only > mode. > > dmesg shows this interesting entry: > Partition check: > hda: hda1 > hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 <hdb5> > > and the view in cfdisk is: > Size: 60040544256 bytes > hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 509.97 > hdb2 Primary Linux swap 1019.94 > hdb3 Primary Linux ext2 30721.43 > hdb5 Logical Linux 1998.75 > Logical Free Space 25786.26 > > What if hdb4 is actually a primary partition that I cannot see? This would > violate the partitioning rules, wouldn't it? > > Thanks for any help, > Jonathan > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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