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 :) > > > > > > > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!?grub-installgrub-install > >Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > >http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > 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, -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
