I reinstall my Winxp as NTFS Yesterday, and i get this error when i boot in to linux by Cd-Rom boot .

RedHat 8.09
cdrom -- linux boot

#chroot /mnt/sysimage
chroot:cannot change root directory to /mnt/sysimage:No such file or directory No such device

#fdisk -l
/dev/hda1 * Fat32
/dev/hda2 Ext'd
/dev/hda5 Fat32
/dev/hda6 NTFS
/dev/hda7 Linux
/dev/hda8 Linux Swap
/dev/hda9 Linux
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I can't view my /etc/fstab because can't change root directory and mount the hda7.

It seems the Winxp installation have destroyed my linux ......

-_-

Anyone can help me ?
Thank you so much

Sorry about my poor English

Boot from a linux bootdisk, prefererably one which will allow you to chroot to your root linux directory. Tom's Boot Disk is a good one. I'm unsure of the mechanics of booting from a cdrom, but once you get your partitions mounted you could look around and see what's missing...

cool,
Laura

Try to see if your partitions have ben mounted. do a simple: mount
That should print the partitions that are mounted and where they are mounted. If your linux partition isn+t mounted anywhere, just mount it yourself.

For example:

fdisk -l

Should print out all the partitions you have. Try to identify the one that your linux (/ root partition) is on. Identify it by size, or by elimination. If oyu know which partition it is on and what type of filesystem it is, even better.

Then just:

mkdir /mylinux
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mylinux

Change the ext3 to your / (root) filesystem type and /dev/hda1 to the partition you found from fdisk -l.

Then if all goes well and there is no output from the above mount command chroot to /mylinux:

chroot /mylinux

Once there you can use your linux partition as if you were on it.

/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

This will install grub in MBR and it will come up again after reboot.

Good luck!

Peace!

Thank you for the reply


Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20491075584 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders, total 40021632 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 6152894 3076416 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 6152895 40017914 16932510 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 6152958 26635769 10241406 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 26635833 33334874 3349521 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 33334938 33543719 104391 83 Linux (BOOT)
/dev/hda8 33543783 34587944 522081 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda9 34588008 40017914 2714953+ 83 Linux (/)

Disk /dev/hdb: 6498 MB, 6498680832 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 790 cylinders, total 12692736 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 16065 12691349 6337642+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 16128 8048564 4016218+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6 8048628 12691349 2321361 b Win95 FAT32

mkdir /mylinux
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mylinux

It work !
But i can't mount the /dev/hda9
#mount : special device /dev/hda9 does not exist.

It seems /dev/hda9 was corrupted!!

How can i check the device is health or not ?
Any command ??

Really Thank you Very much !
^!^

the command you are looking for is:

fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda9

This should work for you if you have ext3 filesystem. Does anyone know how to check the filesystem of a partiiton? Maybe check /etc/fstab, it might give you some usefull info on that. Search for the line /dev/hda9 and see what filesystem it is, unless you know what it is, in which case you can fsck it to see whether it is healthy

Good luck! Peace!

Thx

I try fsck -t ext3 /dev/hda9.

WARNING:Couldn't open /etc/fstab:No such file or dir
e2fsck :Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda9
Counld this be a zero-length partition?

oh...^_^
What can i do ?

Thank you ^!^

If your root directory is mounted as /mylinux then the fsck command can't find /etc/fstab in its usual place. You can try setting the environment variable FSTAB_FILE to /mylinux/etc/fstab. This environment variable overrides the standard location for fstab. After setting the variable try running your fsck command again.

Bill

unfortunately,
My root directory is in /dev/hda9.
I can't mount it .
So i need to check & fix the filesystem on /dev/hda9 !

Sorry, must have read one too many posts when I replied earlier. I didn't notice that /dev/hda9 was your / partition. Anyway, after rereading I gather that you are able to mount your /boot partition. Don't know if this will work, but how about mounting the /boot partition and creating a temporary fstab file. Then set the FSTAB_FILE variable to make fsck happy? You'll need to set up another mount point perhaps /myroot.

Along with the other entries in fstab you'll need a line something like...
/dev/hda9 /myroot ext3 defaults 1 2

Bill