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Old 04-28-2005, 04:15 AM   #16
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Boot with the slackware CD, then note the output with
fdisk -l
look at the /dev/hda2 line in the id field, is it 83 ?

If it is 83, try to mount /dev/hda2 :
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd

Post any output if it fails
 
Old 04-28-2005, 06:02 AM   #17
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ok I tried that.
It started booting(amazingly)
but stopped near the end saying:
VFS cannot open root device "dev/hda2" or 00:00
Please append a correct "root=" option
Kernel Panic: unable to mount /dev/hda2 on 00:00


argh i'm missing lectures cos of this.
 
Old 04-28-2005, 09:35 AM   #18
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Ok tried again.
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd
returns can't find mount point /dev/hd
 
Old 04-28-2005, 09:40 AM   #19
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Quote:
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd
returns can't find mount point /dev/hd
Type it agan, it seems you typed /dev/hd instead of /mnt/hd in the second parameter.
 
Old 04-28-2005, 09:43 AM   #20
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bugger...
sorry I DID type /mnt/hd
and it returned can't find /mnt/hd
not /dev/hd.


excuse the typos.
 
Old 04-28-2005, 09:44 AM   #21
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What's the output of:
Code:
fdisk -l
That should list your partitions.
If it doesn't display all the information you're expecting try:
Code:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
fdisk -l /dev/hdc
fdisk -l /dev/hdd
Also, depending on how you partitioned (from what I understand the partition was used by Linux when you changed the size and added another), you may have lost data.

Last edited by gbonvehi; 04-28-2005 at 09:48 AM.
 
Old 04-28-2005, 10:01 AM   #22
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I made a clean partition and then installed linux on it, so no data loss.
fdisk -l returns:
Device Boot Start End Blocks ID system
/dev/hda1 * 1 3631 2915976 1 NTFS
/dev/hda2 3632 4864 9904072 83 Linux
 
  


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