[ltp] Partition problems?

[D. Sen]

Have you tried booting from a boot-disk (or even the Mandrake CDROM by typing
rescue at the prompt, if you can boot from a CDROM) and mounting the linux
partition? If this works, I would try to re-install grub/lilo into the MBR.

chris christensen wrote:

> I think my last msg on this got lost. Trying again:
>
> Decided to enlarge my Windows partition and reinstall Mandrake 7.2
>
> Used PQ Partiion magic to delete Linux partition, enlarge Windows partiton
> and create new Linux EXT2 and swap.
>
> Installed Mandrake and let disk Drake format the new ext and swap partiton.
> It is a 12 gig drive and I am using 6 for windows, ramainder for Linux.
>
> Install went fine until restart where it hung....
>
> Restarted with power swtich, got Grub, chose Linux and as it loads I get "
> partition check
> hda: general protection fault:0000
>
> then several lines of hex I can't decifer, then it stops!
>
> Windows boots fine from Grub.
>
> I had this working fine last month when I installed Mandrake the first time.
>
> Need to save windows, so can't do a total format.
>
> Chris Christensen
>
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