hi,
it finally happened to me. Not quite sure how. The atx cabinets have 2
power switches, and i used to keep the hard switch on and operate through
the front soft switch.
Yesterday we were facing some power problems. Once the power came back
the pc started booting out of its own, and before it had booted fully the
power had died again.
The result was that i was not able to boot any longer. So i booted from
the rh 6.2 cd. I didnot have the fstab entries wriiten down, so started
mounting the hda? partitions one by one. I was relieved to find atleast my
home partition and another i kept for rpms were clean according to e2fsck.
I decided to reinstall linux, keeping the above 2 partitions intact. But
by confounded luck the installation crashed at the last moment i.e during
post install checks. The pc expectedly refused to boot.
So i made another attempt. This time diskdruid complained that
partition table was corrupt.
Using a virtual console i mounted the disk and tried rewrite the
partition table fdisk. On using the verify option it said that the
logical drive /hda5 continued beyond the end of the extended partition. I
was having win98 on the 1st partition, to save that i tried to delete the
logical partition and redo the linux installation. But things ended there
as from then on it wouldnt even mount the hda.
I have faced quite a few power crashes ( not on this pc) but nothing
had happened before. Quite surprised this happened. I still feel win
partitions are ok. Any suggestions on the way to go will be extremely
welcome and even on things i could have done better. :(
sreangsu
p.s. I still am not sure whether it was the power cut or an inadvisable
thing that i had done. I had created a fat16 partiotion through diskdruid.
It was lying un formatted for a long time so i had formatted it from
win98.
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