Back again. I've tried a few more things and thought I should report what I've found. (In case you didn't read my earlier email - I've had a major crash while attempting to upgrade to hamm.)
I have managed to boot under a rescue disc (I think it's a bo one). I copied e2fsck from my brother's computer (he runs debian 1.2 I think). I ran e2fsck on my /dev/hda1 and eventually that seemed to fix my disk. I then manually mounted /dev/hda1 at /mnt and everything seems still to be there. I then tried to reinstall lilo. I did this by copying my brother's version of lilo onto a floppy, modifying lilo.conf to take into account the fact that things were at /mnt/boot/.... rather than /boot/.... and so on. Then I ran lilo, but it complained: LILO Version 19..... Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /mnt/boot/boot.b First boot sector is version 20. Expecting version 18. So this didn't work - probably because my brother has an old version of lilo??? Anyway, I then tried a custom boot disk I had. It managed to boot -sort of. It complained halfway through about not being able to run /etc/init.d/boot or something like that. Then later it complained about there not being a /proc directory. Eventually I did get a login prompt, but I couldn't login. It seemed to have booted, but in a pretty broken state. (As a result I had to take it down without syncing - meaning I will probably have to run e2fsck again). So the stuff is still there, but in a pretty broken state. How do I recover? Help me someone! This is the worst crash I've had with Debian (probably my own fault though.) Thanks in advance, Mark. __________________________________________________________________________ _\________/___\______/___________________________Mark_Phillips___________/ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ____\__/HE___\__/------APTAIN/ ________________________________ ____\__/_____\__/--\__/______/ /__"To be is to do."__I. Kant___/ ____\__/______\______/_______/ /__"To do is to be."__A. Sartre_/ /__"I am."____________God_______/ /__Jesus did.___________________/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]