Hi,
You should keep a copy of your partition table, now. What happened to you
could be a sign of a weakening on your disks first sector, and so could
soon happen again.
CU,
raven
At 22:53 06.04.99 , Ricardo DaMatta wrote:
>First of all I'd like to thank those who replied when I was very
>concerned. A friend in need is a friend indeed!
>Here's how I solved it:
>- The output I had from fdisk was obtained from previous boots from
>syslog, as I have "fdisk -l" in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
>As I said fdisk was only giving me an error messagea afterwards and
>no more.
>- I used another clean disk drive with the same size and geometry
>(geometry was what mattered, size could have been larger).
>I created a partition table on the "mirror disk" using the output
>>from "fdisk -l" I had.
>- Linux was somehow able to boot up, all I lost were partitions hda9 and
>hda10 which were very important to me. I copied the other partitions
>to the "mirror disk" as a precaution.
>- I copied the new partition table from the "mirror disk" to my original
>disk which contained hda9 and hda10 using
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>and "voila" all was well again.
>This did it.
>Since I had another disk to play with I then managed to straighten out
>my partition table eliminating the "different physical/logical"
>messages.
>Live long and prosper.
>
>~
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