Problems booting Mandrake 10 beta after installation

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote:
>
> Some advance... but still no solution...
>
> I erased the partitions I created to install Mdk10 beta so the partition
> layout returned as it used, and everything was as before: I can't Mandrake
> 91 as usual.
>
> So it has to be something with the partition layout that its certainly
> changed after Mandrake installation...
>
> I booted a knoppix session and edited /etc/fstab to reflect the new
> partition layou after reinstalling Mdk10 beta... but still I'm having the
> same problem when booting...
>
> Rigth now I'm trying to use a loadlin.exe to boot directly from my windows
> partition, but I have to figure it out how to make this thing run inside
> windows ME...
>
> Is there a loadlin version for linux?

I rather doubt it.  The entire point of loadlin is to use it to boot from
DOS.

> I'm thinking that the vmlinuz kernel has harcoded the device partition what
> to look for while booting... unless you pass it as an option (loadlin has a
> parameter for this)... but how can I pass a parameter to the kernel?

No, that cannot be what is happening.

> Other approach migth be to use rdev which is a DOS program...
> is there any version of this for linux?

What kind of partitioning scheme are you using?  What kind of drives are
they?  SCSI, IDE, SATA?  What kind of bootloader does Mandrake use (LILO
or grub)?

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