I created a new fat32 partition from free space, now my dual boot W2K/Mandrake won't boot.

[Mark Berkwitt]

Thanks for the help.

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[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Mark
Berkwitt
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:15 PM
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Subject: RE: I created a new fat32 partition from free space, now my
dual boot W2K/Mandrake won't boot.


I'm trying to use the update installation to Mandrake 8.2 to fix the
problem;
it's uncooporative.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Mark
Berkwitt
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:34 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: I created a new fat32 partition from free space, now my dual
boot W2K/Mandrake won't boot.


I created a new fat32 partition from free space on my 40GB hdd. Now my dual
boot W2K/Mandrake won't boot.

I used the "Disk Manager" feature in W2K Pro to create a fat32 partition. It
complained that another program was using the hdd or something but I managed
to format it anyway and use it within W2K.
Now I can't start my linux installation. The W2K still boots.

This is my partition map:
Primary HTFS 7.81GB
Extended
494MB / ext2 or ext3
243MB swap
2.93GB ? ext?
4.6GB /home ext?
3.91GB fat32   << Here's the new one I just made. (G:)
14GB FREE
3.91GB fat32   << Old part. for sharing .mp3 and transfering between OSs.
(F:)

Here is my error message:

Activating swap partitions: swapon: /dev/hda7: Invalid argument    [FAILED]
Finding module dependencies                                        [OK]
Checking filesystems
/dev/hda9:
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem
(and not a swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt,
and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblodk:
	e2fsck -b 8193 <device>

fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda9
/dev/hda8: clean, 587/602656 files, 29306/1204867
Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N)
(beware, you can lose data)

I tried deleting the newly created fat32 but my Mandrake 8.1 still won't
start.


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