[aclug-L] Re: LInux sucks

["Brinkley Harrell" <johnbharrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:discussion-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Michael A. Holmes
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> /home/mike,
> and it still contains the varicad directory.  I did a restore from my
> Western Digital EZ Drive diskette and it resorted my boot directory which
> had the partitions loaded in them.  AS I cannot run lilo with the
> partitions being controlled by the western digital bios enhancement (old
> motherboard )  When the master boot record was destroyed, I only had C
> drive in Windoz.  I lost d/e/f in windoz, and all of the linux drives.  I
> did not save anything, I killed the computer and loaded in the hard drive
> diskette and restored my hard drive.  Strange thing was the
> windows drives
> did not die until I ran linux after it crashed.  I had a complete windoz,
> and just problems with linux, but my / directory was still intact.  Then
> when I cycled power down, it never came back up right.  only hda1 was
> there, all other drives were gone.

I think I really don't understand how your disk was partitioned. Are you
using WD's EZ Drive under MSDOS to access the disk? Do you have a main and
an extended partition with the D, E, and F drives as well as the Linux ext2
partitions in it? Are you running ext2 partitions or do you use parts of the
Windows drive space to run Linux?

Can you boot to single user -- at the lilo prompt, type in "linux single".
If so, can you provide a listing of the following command:

        fdisk -l /dev/hda > partitions.txt

while you are in there, why not include the dmesg output from the boot:

        dmesg > startup.txt

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