[wplug] kernel not loading after partitioning hard drive

[Coutch, Robert]

There's a good chance that by repartitioning the drive, your old boot
partition (for example /dev/hda3)
was moved or renamed (for example: renamed to /dev/hda1).

If you just resized partitions, this should not be the case.
If you moved or added/deleted partitions, this may be what happened.

Boot from a rescue disk (RedHat 7.0 's CD-ROM has a rescue mode) and verify 
which partition is where and make sure lilo is trying to load the kernel
from the correct
partition.

The resuce system should let you mount your existing partitions so you can
fix lilo if necessary.


Hope this helps,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:59 AM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] kernel not loading after partitioning hard drive


"Vanco, Donald" wrote:

> Did you move the kernels beyond 1024 cylinders when you repartitioned?  If
> so - lilo cannot find them anymore...
>

I actually moved the root partition towards the beginning of the hard drive
so I don't think this is a problem. In any event, I don't think the LILO
version that I am using cares about the 1024 cylinder problem as far as I've
been able to understand.  Please let me know if I am wrong in assuming this.


FYI, my hard drive is approx 40 GB and my root partition starts around 14GB.
My root partition *was* started around 20GB before the repartitioning.

Thanks,

Paul

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Cantalupo [mailto:lupey+ at pitt.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 10:00 AM
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: [wplug] kernel not loading after partitioning hard drive
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am just repartitioned my hard drive with Partition Magic
> > 7.0. I have a
> > Windows partition and several Linux partitions. After reboot,
> > LILO pops
> > up with a choice (as usual) of Windows or 2 linux kernels. One of my
> > kernels (the original one) works but when I select the other
> > (I use this
> > kernel for NTFS support), it hangs during loading. It literally stops
> > with "Loading........................" displayed on the screen.
> >
> > Is my kernel corrupted from the partitioning? If so, how much
> > more of my
> > hard drive could be corrupted? Any chance of recovery beside using my
> > non-existent backup CD?  :(
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > Paul
> >
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