I have(had) redhat 7.2 installed along with win 98. my latest kernel appeared to be working fine. the /boot and / partition were set up as ext3. I had it running for over a week, before booting back to win 98. while running under win 98 I started partition magic 7.0, which claims to know about ext2 partitions. It gave me the same error twice, I unfortunate did not note the error at the time. it was something like "CHS and LBA block count do not match. lba is calculated as correct. fix this error" to which I mistakenly said yes. Now I cannot boot linux. I get kernel panic with all 3 kernels I had set up for lilo. prior to the kernel panic the error cramfs: wrong magic. appears. First question, can someone confirm that this error is in fact caused by whatever partition magic did ? Second question, can it be fixed ? I have read the page on GPart and it appears you have to be able to boot linux in order to use it. are their any repair utilities that I can rawrite to a floppy and boot with that handle ext3 ? Thanks in advance for any help you can give, Tom kerstan@comcast.net
