Forgot. I re-installed from the ground up. It wouldn't let me untick the formatting for /home, so that's all gone. Another lesson learned. Back up /home and frequently. I only lost about two weeks worth of stuff, but a couple of those things are going to be hard to replace.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay. Couldn't access sda3 or sda4 at all. It appears that wrecking the > superblock wrecks the OS. Nice. I tried a number of different methods of > restoring Ubuntu from ubuntuforums.org and nary a one worked. When I > booted gparted it managed to see 9.10 as an operating system, but /home was > just formatted blank space. > > Lesson: Don't be a moron. If I boot a system, let it boot. > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Okay. Last night on the porch, I turned on my computer and accidentally >> started Win7. It started booting, and I decided to kill the boot. >> Ctrl-alt.delete. And boom. >> >> grub> >> >> That is all. >> >> Okay, I booted from the Live CD and tried the how to fix grub how-tos. >> They all said >> >> mount /dev/sda3 /mnt >> >> but that didn't work. I got a message that said, "File system type >> missing." I located some more info and found that I might be missing the >> superblock. Yep, it's missing. I've now located a page that shows how to >> fix ext2 and ext3 file systems, but nothing for ext4. Interesting. I guess >> I might have install 9.10 again. Since I have /home on a separate >> partition, I suppose I'll be okay. >> >> Anyone have any advice on how to proceed? >> >> >> > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
