Kernel panic - Confused partitions

[Tommy Reynolds]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:55:18 +0200, NetMasker wrote:

> # cat /etc/lilo.conf
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> boot=/dev/hda7
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
>         label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda8
> other=/dev/hda5
>         optional
>         label=winxp
> other=/dev/hda6
>         optional
>         label=DOS
> other=/dev/hda1
>         optional
>         label=win2k
> 
> #fdisk -l /dev/hda
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4866 cylinders
> Units=cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device    Boot    Start         End       Blocks   id   System
> /dev/hda1    *        1         1402    11261533    7   HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            1403       4863    27816545    f   Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            1403       3442    16386268    7   HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6            3443       3448       48163   83   Linux
> /dev/hda7            3449       4332      7100698  83   Linux
> /dev/hda8            4333       4462      1044193  82   Linux swap
> /dev/hda9            4463       4865      3237066   b   Win95 FAT32
> 
> Now I am sure that the partitions are confused! (I remeber them and I can
> also recognise them from their size - you can see it in "lilo.conf" also):
> hda6 was set up to be the dos partition
> hda7 was set up to be the boot partition
> hda8 was set up to be the root partition
> hda9 was set up to be the swap partition
> the rest are ok.

I guess the partitions were not really "scrambled", but that you
created a new Windows partition or something like that which renamed
all your partitions.  You may be able to recover by booting back into
rescue mode, doing the "chroot /sysimage" trick and then editing your
"/etc/lilo.conf" file to look like the one below.  Remember to rerun
"lilo" to update your configuration before rebooting.

Warning: I haven't tested this.  It may fry something.  No
warrantee.  Hope this helps.

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
        label=linux
	root=/dev/hda7
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
	read-only
other=/dev/hda1
        optional
        label=win2k
other=/dev/hda5
        optional
        label=winxp
other=/dev/hda9
        optional
        label=DOS

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HTH.