Steve wrote:

> Just more info
>
> the error on booting using the CD is:
>
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 50250
> Sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super can not find resierfs on ide(3,2)
> Kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
>
> I also tried to run cfdisk just to look and it gave an error of:
>
> FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1:logical partitions overlap
> Press any key to exit cfdisk
>
> fdisk reports the partitions as:
>
> dev boot start end blocks id
> /dev/hda1 * 1025 2108 81950040 c W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2 1356 3938 19527480 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 3939 3972 257040 82 Linux Swap
>
> It's obvious to me now that somehow a program wrote across the partition
> onto another partition.
>
> I started with Win 98 first then installed Slackware. I have run Slack
> very little. My son used it for Win right after I installed Slack.
>
> Does anyone have any clue as to how this happened so I can stop it in the
> future. Is this a reiserfs problem?
>
That's not a reiserfs problem, it's a messed-up-disk problem. Make sure you
always use linux fdisk to make linux partitions, and run it before using
dos fdisk to make dos partitions, then make sure the tables in the two
fdisks match. Options like linear and lba32 can help.