Hi,
My partition table was recently corrupted, and thanks to the help of
this list, I managed to repair the table and re-install LM8.1.
My main concern now is trying to figure out what I did that might
have caused the corruption. The only unsual activities just prior to
corruption were:
- Copying 3 650MB ISO files from linux reiserfs partition to FAT32
windows partition.
- I may have left a floppy drive mounted and failed to log out as root,
before shutting down (but surely this wouldn't affect the partition
table).
- Booted windows. Just looked around with Explorer. I accidentally
opened a BIOS flash utility, but exited immediately, without activating
any controls. I dont' think the utility actually did anything other than
show its GUI, but I can't be certain. Can flashing BIOS (if thats what
happened) affect the partition table ?
Upon leaving windows, Linux would not re-boot, because it couldn't
find the filesystems to mount due to the partition table corruption.
I use reiserfs for my linux partitions, if that is a factor. I'd
love to hear any ideas about possible corruption causes.
regards,
Charles.
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