On Sunday 25 March 2001 17:55, you wrote:
> Thanks Civilme for the tips.
>
> However, when I get into rescue mode and type
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
>
> I get nothing but the prompt back. No error message.
> When I try to mount, it doesn't give me an error, but
> instead just doesn't mount anything.
Yipes!
What IS your configuration? get into rescue again, put a DOS-formatted
floppy in the drive and
# mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
# dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.txt
# lspci -vv > /mnt/lspci.txt
# sync
# umount /dev/fd0
Boot back into windows (with the floppy out) Put it back in and attach the
files to an email directly to me.
Civileme
>
> Any additional suggestions?
>
> Jessie B.
>
> --- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 25 March 2001 13:05, you wrote:
> > > I've found out that my boot partition is
> >
> > corrupted. I
> >
> > > don't know anything else beyond that, except that
> >
> > when
> >
> > > in grub I try to find vmlinuz, nothing is
> >
> > returned. I
> >
> > > can still get to my Windows side and backup all
> >
> > data
> >
> > > there. Is there anyway to get to the Linux data
> >
> > from
> >
> > > the Windows side to archive it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jessie B.
> >
> > Well, slow down there, Tex. We don't need to shoot
> > the disk quite yet.
> >
> > Try this
> >
> > Put in your CD and boot. When the splash screen
> > appears hit F1 then type
> > "rescue" (without the quotes). and hit return. When
> > the rescue prompt comes
> > up, do this
> >
> > # fdisk -l /dev/hda
> >
> > That will give you all of your partitions in a
> > list--do you remember which
> > one was root?
> >
> > If you do not, then do this for each partition
> >
> > # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt #the 5 is an example--look
> > at your partition table and
> > # use only those
> > linux native not swap
> > # cd /mnt/etc # if you do NOT get an error message,
> > you have found your root
> > # umount /dev/hda5 # assuming you have not found
> > it go to the next
> >
> > Once you have found your old root partition do this
> >
> > # mount /dev/hda8 /mnt (You may have this mounted
> > already from steps)
> > # chroot mount
> > # cat /etc/fstab
> > You can use the output of the cat command to mount
> > your other partitions.
> >
> > Now you can archive... You can also try to restore
> > the boot with /sbin/lilo
> > or the equivalent for grub.
> >
> > Civileme
>
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