On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 04:46:12PM +0000, Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe wrote: > hi All > > i have a very annoying problem that i need urgent help with. > > the background: I have a Dell inspiron 8600 with a Debian partition, > Windows XP partition and the usual Dellutility FAT. I wanted to resize my > partitions and used partition magic 8.1. i made sure no applications were > running and that i selected the right partitions to resize. the program > takes ages so i left and came after a while just to get a few error > messages "could not complete operations...missing/broked inodes..". i soon > realised that gmail notifier was running in the background and thought that > this must have upset the whole resizing procedure (maybe). so i killed > gmail notifier and ran partition magic again. though this time i couldn't > select my linux partition at all. Feeling fed up, i booted into Debian as > usual. I use GRUB, so it said GRUB LOADING. PLEASE WAIT.... but then ERROR > 17. (=cannot detect selected partition). and then it hung. hitting > Ctrl-Alt-Del gave me the boot up menu and i could run Dell diagnositics, > but still got the error 17. First thing I would do would be to boot the system from a live-cd, check the partitions (if they are what you want), reinstall grub. j. -- ______________________________________________________________________________ "We did a risk management review. We concluded that there was no risk of any management." -- Dilbert :wq
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