Hi all, Over the weekend, I did a lot of software updates to my workstation. Finally, I rebooted the system and it wouldn't boot. It reported a kernel panic because it couldn't mount / (/dev/sda3)
Further investigation from a live CD (Ubuntu....) indicates that my partition table has been modified! sda4 wasn't there when I installed the system. The other 3 partitions seem reasonable. However, GRUB can't identify the filesystem on either sda1 nor sda3. I'm also not able to mount them from my live CD. Ubuntu doesn't even create device files for anything other than /dev/sda, but it shows the other partitions under fdisk. Here is what I've got: Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x9b889b88 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 100 803218+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 101 225 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 226 38913 310761360 83 Linux /dev/sda4 1 1 0 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 ========================================================== So, I'm looking for advise. What should I try before I just blow it all away and start over? I REALLY would like to get my system restored/fixed, though. Any ideas would be most appreciated. Mike.
