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Thank you. A very thorough answer, as usual. :)
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article There are all...
I didn't actually delete a parbreastion accidentally. I have a multi-boot with (on hda) Windows98, a test version of same, several FAT32 logical data parbreastions, Mandrake, swap, suse, and two Ext2 data parbreastions, in that order. I reorganized the Windows data parbreastions. As a result Mandrake went from hda10 to hda9 and Suse went from hda11 to hda10.
After that both Suse and Mandrake had "aborted boots". With Suse I booted the CD, which then edited fstab automatically and I was able to boot from the CD. I then edited fstab and lilo.conf to update to the proper parbreastion IDs, and everything was fine after that. Mandrake had the same problem that Suse had had: It got partway through the boot and started complaining that hda8 was not a valid parbreastion (hda8 is FAT32). A couple of lines later it got confused and quit. (Messages were things like "No init found"... "Kernel panic"... "Kernel trying to destroy init" or something like that. So I was deducing that the boot depended upon a valid fstab, but I didn't know how to go about editing that. From what you describe it sounds like Lilo found the parbreastion OK, and started the boot OK, but that the inaccurate fstab file was blocking completion of the boot.
No. I haven't got far enough yet, in terms of Linux expertise, that I'm depending on not losing data. That's why I wanted to figure out how this works. I don't expect anyone to walk me through all the details. I just want to find some kind of good PDF or guidebook somewhere that explains the sys admin commands and gives example code. Example: I boot with a boot floppy or CD. What if I try: mountdev-hda9 and it says "can't"? buttuming I can mount it, how do I cd from the floppy to hda9? How do I edit fstab or lilo.conf? Something like: vi fstab ? What if it then says "permission denied"....
Again, I don't want you to spend your time explaining all the possible situations to me. I just want to figure out how to become profficient in working at the command prompt when I can't boot x. I have an older version of Linux in a Nutshell for reference, but I think I need more guidance than that.
Hello, mayayana, At this point I have seen Peter's response, which I find humurous. Implicated, but not involved. It is like a riddle you...
Hello Arvin, I think I recall that you said the grub loader... maybe you are using grub, not lilo...
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