This all happened at about 3AM so please forgive the sketchiness of the
info, tired last night, tired today.
My home PC is set up to dual boot Windows95 and Mandrake 7.1. Grub takes
care of the boot options. Windows crashed last night and I had to do a hard
reset. When it came time for Grub to kick in it dropped to what it called a
"Bash like shell". Pressing Tab lists available commands. I'm not familiar
with the list of commands that were presented. (I rarely work at this
level.) I left my notes of what I did at home but I was informed that there
was a problem with an invalid partition.
This has happened before, I know that fdisk /mbr will get my Windows
partition back to life but leaves me screwed with Linux.
There are two drives in the machine a 10Gb as hda containing Windows, / and
/usr. The other drive 2Gb is set aside for /home. I carefully noted and
lost the partition information at the last install. Booting from a floppy
fdisk reports the following from memory...
Partition Boot Start end Size Type
/hda1 c * 0 509 4GB Windows95 (Fat32)
/hda2 510 ? ? Linux type 85
/hda5 ? ? ? unknown type (AA I think)
I would have expected to see /hda3 as / or /usr and there is no sign of the
swap file.
I could mount /home and am happy that it is OK. I don't mind doing a
re-install of Mandrake I'm just wondering...
What happened?
How do I stop it happening again?
Is there a handy fix?
Peter
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