AG <computing.acco...@googlemail.com> writes: > > On one disk I found something that booted into the grub prompt. I > did some reading up on grub and some basic commands. I didn't get > very far - it reports back that there is an ext2fs loaded on > /dev/hda1 which I'm assuming was root, although I am sure that when > I partitioned the drive today I selected ext3.
That's to be expected. Ext3 filesystems are basically ext2 filesystems with a journal. Many tools will recognize them as ext2 filesystems, and they can even be mounted, read, and written by pre-ext3 Linux kernels as if they were ext2 filesystems. And Andrew is right. If you've got a bootable GRUB disk, then you need to try that first. You didn't say what GRUB commands you tried, but did you try something like this: root (hd0,0) ls ## If this fails, try (hd0,1) or (hd0,2) until "ls" gives you what ## looks like your newly installed Debian root filesystem. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-xx.yy.zz-aa-generic root=/dev/hda1 initrd /boot/initrd.img-xx.yy.zz-aa-generic boot For the kernel and initrd file names, you can use <TAB> to complete the filenames (or the GRUB "ls" command to poke around until you find the right names). The "root=/dev/hda1" option might not be necessary. Try with and without it. -- Kevin <buhr+deb...@asaurus.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org