Thanks a bunch Michael... looking at your reply sent me to:
info grub
realizing I had no idea how the boot loader works.
I tried the commands you suggested but didn't get it right - grub.conf wasn't found
even though a <TAB> listed it in the /boot/grub directory.
(The following are some significant lines from my current grub.conf
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7 ro root=/dev/hda1
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.7.img)
Then as you further suggested, I ran rawrite from diskette and tried a recover boot
from the cd. This didn't seem to do me much good as it mounted the filesystem and a
recovery partition - but I couldn't access my precious data (weeks of servlet
development not backed up).
The really good news is that despite my imagining days of research on grub before
being able to patch the system together, on reboot the grub window menu appeared! ...
and booted as normal ...Whew! what luck.
So it's a full backup night tonight along with a GRUB familiarization read.
I don't know what caused the problem though - nor how the boot to recovery resolved
it. I'd be interested in any of your thoughts on this - including suggestions on what
I should do to avoid similar experiences in the future.
Thanks Again & Regards
/j-p.
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