 | | | Linux Crashed: Urgent Help | Linux Crashed: Urgent Help 2004-06-11 - By Marek Pawinski
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dont bother wrote:
> Hi List,
> Please help me : I have landed in the following
> situation and I am helpless now.
>
> I have Red Hat Linux and Windows 2000 on my hard
> drive. TOday I installed fresh Windows 2000 on my
> previous Windows 2000.
> When I started my machine again, Linux could not boot.
> I booted it then with CD -- However the CD asks me to
> install/upgrade it. When I clicked on upgrade it asks
> me somethings like Language =EN , Keyboard etc...and
> then says:
> "The Linux Swap Partition does not seem to be
> initialized" CLick OK to reboot your system.
>
> I could not get into my Linux. ALl the data is safe, I
> can mount that to /mnt/sysimage when I went to rescue
> mode. When I see my /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab it does
> not show my Linux Partition /dev/hda2 and when I try
> to mount like
> $mount -t ext3 /dev/hda2 to /foo
> It does not work either.
>
> I am quite puzzled and wondering if at all installing
> windows 2000 would have deleted the swap partition.
> WHen I Do fdisk /dev/hda
> and option p to print the partition table;
>
> I see the following:
> Device Boot start end blocks id system
>
> /dev/hda1 1 13 <some value> Linux
> /dev/hda2 14 1375 <some value> Linux
> /dev/hda4 * 1506 2432 <some value>+ HPFS/NTFS
>
>
> Please Help Me....
>
> Thanks
> DOnt: In Need :)
>
>
>
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Looks like Windows 2000 has overwitten your boot loader. You should run
"grub-install /dev/hda" at the command prompt when you run the rescue disk.
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Marek
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