Re: RH 5.2 Crash! Help!

[Aaron Prohaska <verdesoft verdesoft net>]

Rob, I have now gone and deleted the partition I am using for Linux. So
know there is one partition on the system for win98. Windows is
currently installed on this first partition. After deleting the second
partition I rebooted win98 and it still is telling me the size of the
whole disk for the total size in My Computer.It gives me a little less
then half the disks space as my used amount. So the free amount should
be only a small amount more then the used amount. I assume that win
still thinks it has the whole disk because of this. Now I am going to
install Linux on the empty partition, but I have the feeling that its
not going to help with my situation. Oh, and Rob I have had Linux
installed on this system before and have no problem mounting my win98
file system. Anyone have any idea what I should do from here before
installing Linux?

Thanks everyone for the help with this ongoing problem.

Aaron

Rob Napier wrote:
> 
> If windows thinks it has the whole disk, then you are almost certainly
> using a umsdos partition for linux, which your boot disk probably
> doesn't know how to deal with.
> 
> If reinstalling isn't too bad for you, it should help a lot. ext2fs
> (linux's native filesystem) is a much better filesystem.
> 
> It sounds like you're going the right way. Always install windows
> first. It doesn't play well with others and gets very upset if someone
> else is there first. And if you use the old windows95 filesystem (rather
> than the new windows98 filesystem), you'll be able to read your
> windows drive from linux (I don't know if we have 98 support yet).
> Here's some stuff to look at:
> 
>    http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.html
> 
> It's old, but it might give you a little more info.
> 
> Rob
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:02:41PM -0700, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > Hi Rob, I don't know enough about what I am doing to know if I am using
> > umsdos. My guess is that I am not, but I really don't know. Unless its
> > something really obvious that would tell me. At this point I think I am
> > just going to re-install everything. I want to go the re-install route
> > because I am going to try and get a partition setup of Linux that
> > windows won't see. Currently windows still thinks it has all of the hard
> > drive. I think this is creating problems. So I am going to use fdisk to
> > delete the partitions I am using for linux and see what windows does the
> > trying to look at deleted partitions. I am using the fdisk on the
> > windows boot disk. Is there a different fdisk that I should be using? I
> > didn't think it would matter, but am only guessing.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > Rob Napier wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:28:34PM -0700, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > > > Yesterday I was working in win98 (this is a dual boot system) and I
> > > > happen to crash it. No big suprise since it happens often in win. So win
> > > > locked up and all I could do was turn the system off and then back on.
> > > > Only when I turned it back on I just got Lil at the command prompt and
> > > > couldn't boot anything. At this point I was still not too concerned and
> > > > just broke out my boot disk thinking all would be well. Figuring I could
> > > > just go and re-install Lilo. Except then when I tried to boot from the
> > > > disk I get this error:
> > > >
> > > > Partition Check:
> > > > hda : hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8
> > > > [MS-DOS Fs Rel. 12,Fat 12,Check=n,conv=6,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
> > > > [me=0xe2,cs=3363,#f=204,fs=24914,fl=38037,ds=51214,de=8702,data=51784,se=20259,ts=472725201,ls=29194,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> > > > Transaction block size=512
> > > > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
> > > >
> > > > I don't know what all the char=somenumber means, but I know the kernel
> > > > panic at the end is bad news. I am sort of hoping not to have to
> > > > re-install everything.
> > >
> > > It looks like you're trying to boot off of your ms-dos partition. Do
> > > you have linux on a umsdos? If so, does your boot disk's kernel have
> > > msdos support compiled in (not a module)?
> 
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