I had a good working Debian - Sarge on my IBM laptop and the partitions were hda1 for the WinXP , then hda3 <type ext3> for /boot a swap ant 2 other linux partitions (the problem is that I don't quite remember exact the other hda's) . I tried to split the Win partition in two and now I get the error
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,7)"

I think this can be resolved modifying the groub/menu.list from hda3 and /etc/fstab to say that now my / root partition is no longer the old one (I belive now it is hda6) But, I boot with a cd-boot and go in rc1 mod until the partitioning menu where I see my current partitions:

#1 9,2G ntfs
#5 5,6G ntfs
#3 54,2M ext3
#2 4,2G primary fat32 (I think this is the one where IBM keeps it's installation stuff)
#6 9,8G
#7 9,8G

this last two don't have a file type associated

and in rc2 mode i can mount hda3 with the /boot and change the groub/menu.list

but when I try to mount hda6 (witch I think is the one / I get a Invalid argument error) I think it is because it don't know what type it has. so I can't change the /etc/fstab .

And now I hang in a
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(3,7)"

even if I put in the goub/menu/list either
- /vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda6 ro
or
- /vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro

It is the same.

Can anyone help please

I try to start Partition Magic again but it won't because it has a errot, so I start PartitionInfo witch gives me the informations about partitions.

and in the error column at the 2 linux partitions (not the /boot) the ones that are after (phisicaly) the win partitions have 1 error each witch are:

"Warning #113: Logical starting at 28970108 overlaps enclosing extended volume"

I don't understand this error.

But, what I found out is that the file type is Linux etx2 for both.
And the /boot witch I could mound is Linux ext3