[Gllug] The horror, the horror

[North London John]

Hi,

Again, I spoke too soon. Still, I had 3 and a half weeks of linux - a 
record for me.

(To re capitulate (sick joke) I got Debian woody installed at the 
installfest, following many problems with mandrake, red Hat and 
Knoppix.)

Well, I was dual booting (Win98 / Debian Woody) but had a soft crash 
with windows - not the blue screen of death, it just didn't shut down. 
Press that off button, reboot, "you did not shut down correctly" and 
scan disk.

So far, so M$.

But now, when I try to boot up Deb, I get "file system not found." I've 
tried the rescue options, I've tried Knoppix 3.1, same message. Seems 
like Windows has fscked my partitions.

I guess a reinstall is necessary - but are there any other options?

And frankly, I just keep on reinstalling linux (Knoppix - Mandrake and 
Red Hat stalled on boot) and ending up with corrupt partitions. This is 
well boring, and I'm not learning anything (I already knew windows was 
scheisse).

Where do I look for info on this problem? What do I look for?

John



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