fsck won't save my /boot partition: bad superblock. At this point, i think i should fdisk hda6 and copy the /boot from knoppix over to it.
Does this make sense? Or should i let the install cd format that section, and do a mini install? Thanks for any advice, eric On Saturday 14 June 2003 09:08 am, Richard Urwin wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jun 2003 3:41 pm, Eric Huff wrote: > > When i get knoppix going, what do i do with the partition? > > I assume i would start with fsck? > > That'll be a good guess. It sort of depends on what you find. > > > If i can't recover the /boot partition, can i just copy the /boot files > > from my other box that's runing ML9.1? > > That's straying into expert terratory. I would guess that the vanilla MDK > kernel would run OK, more likely if both systems were installed using > similar options. It's certainly worth trying as I imagine your other > options are limited. If it fails try booting failsafe mode and you might be > able to rebuild the kernel. > > If you can repair enough you should be able to get the repair option to run > off the MDK CDs. > > Otherwise I would backup everything and reinstall.
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