you may be lucky and have only killed the journal. if this is the case probably changing the /etc/fstab entries to ext2 might solve your problem and let you boot.
ymmv, b On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:55, William Chivers wrote: > Hello all, > > Please don't ask why, but I put a Lindows sampler CD into my Mandrake > 9.2 machine at home. You know these CDs: they allow you to look at the > distro without touching your hard disk... > > Presented with a choice of "sample" or "configure", I chose "configure" > to try to take control of hardware detection. A couple of minutes later > when I returned to the machine I found messages about "converting > /dev/hdb9 to ext2" etc. No warning, no dialogue box "Do you really want > to do this", or "backup your data". > > Am I stuffed? Trying to re-boot into Mandrake failed with a Kernel panic > - no init. As the /home directory is in its own partition, I tried to > upgrade to Mandrake10 but again, this failed as the root partition was > unreadable. So I installed Mandrake10 leaving the old /home partition > alone. Booting into Mandrake10 there is nothing in the old /home > partition. > > Most of the data on this partition is backed up on my trusty pentium II > running a very minimal Debian stable ftp server, but not all. Sigh. > > Thanks, > Bill Chivers > > BTW, I have been thinking of automating backup from the server end. Any > thoughts on the script to do this (or existing software)? > > --------------------------------------------- > William J. Chivers > Lecturer in Information Technology > School of DCIT > Faculty of Science and Information Technology > University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus > PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 > Australia > > phone: +61 2 4349 4473 > fax: +61 2 4349 4565 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------- -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd _______________________________________________ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
