bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> On Diana's PC we have it set to dual boot both Windoze and Mandrake 8.0
> The other night we had to run scan disk and defrag on her Windoze side.
> After that she rebooted the system now after the Boot Manger Loads up
> we are getting a kernel panic.
Ouch! At what point do you get your kernel panic? E.g., the last
few lines before the panic would be nice.
> Is there a way we can re run the mandrake setup as a upgrade option
> and let it reinstall so that we do not loose any data or are we
> basically SOL!
Why not boot into rescue mode and mount the partitions?
Or even maybe mount the Windows partition, and tarball all your
important files up on it.
> This is the first time I have ran into this problem so any help
> would be appreciated.
You gotta love Windows. It never stops screwing with the partition
table, especially on >32GB (using 2^30=1GB, 33.8GB using 10^9=1GB)
drives.
-- TheBS
-- Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413 Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
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