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.
-- Marek
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