Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
Dmitri Minaev wrote: I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 6/2/06, nick lidakis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tried booting after recovering but no luck. Maybe I need to reinstall grub? In my case, TestDisk renumbered the partitions, so I had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab accordingly. Compare the actual partition numbers with those shown

Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine now boots into monowall instead of

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
nick lidakis wrote: I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine now boots into

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread Kilian
nick lidakis wrote: I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine now boots into

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread nick lidakis
Kilian wrote: nick lidakis wrote: I was having trouble with my monowall router running off a compact flash. I decide to reinstall the monowall boot image onto the CF card. In the process I must have mistyped and accidentally wrote the image to my boot partition i.e. /dev/sda1. The machine

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: Kilian wrote: [snip details of recovering system] That should be it. You'll lose your old root-partition (which you already did, I think, by installing monowall on /dev/sda1) and your old /usr partition. You should be able to

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread Hex Star
On 5/29/06, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0400, nick lidakis wrote: Kilian wrote:[snip details of recovering system] That should be it. You'll lose your old root-partition (which you already did, I think, by installing monowall on /dev/sda1) and

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-05-29 Thread Dmitri Minaev
I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I occasionally dd'ed a