Re: ruined partitions after win 2000

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:05:29PM -0800, Bill Jehle wrote:
> Hi, 
> I, don't laugh, installed win 2000 pro on a 2 HD system. I allowed it to
> delete my swap partition but then I chickened out and unplugged my RH7
> HD and finished installing win.
>  
> Now it won't boot RH7, obviously it can't find a file system.
>  
> Is it possible to restore a swap partition from rescue?
> I was going to reinstall and try to save the / partition but anaconda
> won't go past the Druid screen.
>  
> any ideas, sympathy?
> --b
We need more information. You can boot from the CD into rescue mode and rerun lilo.
One trick however is you need to mknod the devices such as : mknod /dev/hda3
for them to exist.

The you can configure lilo.conf and run lilo again to recapture the Linux. 

The swap partition is not really a problem because you can configure file swap rather
that partition swap. 

Of course you should have made a bootdisk for the linux before fooling around with
w2k.
But you know that now.

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