Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> How do you know its physically crashed? If it is physically crashed, > the head are probably dead too. If you try, what errors do you get? > The laptop fell about one meter to the floor, while it was running. I can't rmemeber the error messages, but they were sugegsting something unusal had happened. to the /usr partition. I cannot be mounted, so i get the prompt, login through the ash, a very limited number of commands available. Fsck'ed the /usr partition, everything should have been fixed, yet 'mount' cannot mount /usr - the same messages as at boot. While the disk has been damaged, the heads seem to be working. > Try booting up a live CD like GRML, format the whole drive as one > filesystem having it check for badblocks. Have tail -f /var/syslog > runing in another VT and watch the errors. Also listen to the drive. > No noise from the drive. I'll give GRML a try thank you -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]