 | | | Linux Crashed: Urgent Help | Linux Crashed: Urgent Help 2004-06-12 - By akonstam@(protected)
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On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 05:22:36AM +0200, Marek Pawinski wrote:
> 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.
The above idea is a good one assuming you were using grub. If you are
using lilo run lilo to reinstall boot loader.
However, there may be a bigger problem. Windows should be installed
on the first partition of the disk, Now if you don;t what has happened
to you sometimes happens. That is, Windows destroys other partitions
on the disk, If that happens recovery may not be possible,
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