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From: Michael Ledwidge
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00
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Hi folks, if anyone can help me with this, I'd appreciate it...
I have a Linux partition that won't boot anymore (LILO just keeps rebooting
the machine). Booting from a floppy, I can see the two Linux partitions with
fdisk (swap and native) but I can't mount anything.
mount /dev/hda3 (the root partition) returns an error saying it's not
mentioned in /etc/fstab or /etc/something
I tried manually adding /dev/hda3 to both these files but then I get a
more low-level message implying that there is nothing there to mount.
I'm not sure what my options are at this point. If you've got any ideas,
let me know, otherwise I guess I'll have to reformat the partition. {:-(
Cheers,
.M.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,f152ae036506c03e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: leddo@drjones.next.com.au (Michael Ledwidge) Subject: Linux salvage options Date: 1997/03/17 Message-ID: <5gi4a1$2g4@inferno.mpx.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 226141953 Organization: Microplex Pty Ltd Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux