[wellylug] lost boot partition

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Thu Jul 29 09:43:36 NZST 2004


Jamie Baddeley wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I discovered this morning that my home machine is very unhappy :-(, it
>won't boot at all into a 2.4.25 based kernel (complaining that it can't
>find any modules), but does boot into an older 2.4.22 kernel, except
>that once booted, it can't see anything in the boot partition. / is
>ext3, and /boot was/is ext2.
>
>I have a knoppix disk to rescue from, but I was wondering if the LUG had
>some handy tips as to how I might go about solving this.
>
>I haven't had a chance to have a decent look at it, but I'd really
>appreciate some advice/tips before I go do battle with the damned
>machine...
>
>
>cheers
>
>jamie
>
>
>  
>

This happened to me when I compiled exr3 as a module, not into the kernel




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