I just had my /home /var and / partitons vanish from my sight! I was
installing some memory so I shut down the machine and installed it. When
I booted back up I got a kernel panic because of some error on device
03:05. The drive was partitioned like so:
/dev/hda1 /boot
hmmm, sounds like you 'jostled' your HD when you installed your
RAM. A static discharge perhaps? But that would have fried
everything, so it probably wasn't a static discharge. I believe
your best bet for recovering the old /home is to manually mount
it from the newer installation running from
