Re: Bit of an emergency!!

i managed to hook up the drive to an external adapter on another computer.
i have an 8 page paper due tomorrow, but now i have the file, so its no
longer an emergency, just inconvenient.
thanks
On 12/19/06, Piet van Weel <pmvw@outwardfocus.net> wrote:
>
> First things first... 0x82 is the Linux Swap identification
> So it's not going to be able to mount whatever the default root device is.
>
> So I think I would try looking at this thread for help:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351
>
> Cheers...
> Piet
>
> Blake Eggemeyer wrote:
> > yesterday Synaptic told me there were updates, so i updated, one of the
> > updates was a new kernal image.
> > i just tried to boot and i cant.
> > when i get the normal OS selection screen in b/w there is a new kernel
> > option listed, as expected due to the update.
> > but when i try to boot from ANY of the kernel options i get
> > booting ubuntu kernel XX_XX_XX
> > root (hd0,1)
> > fs type unknown, partition type ox82
> > kernel /boot/vmlinuxXX_XX_XX root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
> >
> > error 17: cannot mount partition
> >
> > any key...
> >
> > i have tried a few other partition numbers, but i cant get any to work
> > suggestions please??
> >
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