Clay wrote:
>>Can you post the contents of your /etc/fstab and your partioning scheme
>>(what partitions you have, what hard drives you have, and what's on each
>>partition [swap, linux, windows, etc.])? I think that would be a good
>>start. Please be precise. Typos can make a huge difference in whether
>>the computer would understand the syntax or not.
>
> As the machine won't boot, I can't directly interogate the file,
> however, I can get this much from booting from the CD, and going to
> the manual partition window-
>
> /dev/hda:
> /hda1:
> mount point: The box is empty, but offers these options- /boot, /,
> /home, /temp, /usr, /vat, /usr/local/ /opt.
> filesystem: ext3
> file system lable: /boot
> size: 101MB
>
> /dev/hda2
> mount point: not applicable
> file system: physical volume (LVM)
> size: 19438MB
>
> /dev/hdb
> /dev/hdb1
> mount point: not applicable
> filesystem: physical volume (LVM)
> size: 76340MB
>
> /dev/hdd
> mount point: box is empty. Options offered are- ext2, ext3, physical
> volume (LVM), software raid, swap, vfat.
> filesystem: ext3
OK. From this information, I can at least deduce that you have
(probably) two hard drives on the primary IDE port. What's your
secondary slave? I would assume disk druid wouldn't pick up a CD drive.
At the very least, it seems you haven't hosed your partition table.
Here's what I'd suggest. Do you have a Knoppix CD sitting around, or
can you make one easily? If so, boot with it and see if it can see into
your hard drive. If so, that's good. At that point, it may be best to
save what you want to keep on a different computer or something while
you're in the Knoppix environment and reinstall Fedora. That may at
least get you into an environment where you can fix some stuff.
Even if this doesn't work, it never hurts to have a Knoppix CD lying
around for use as a rescue disk.
The other option is boot into something that will give you access to
fsck. The Fedora rescue mode will probably do that, as will Knoppix.
Boot into it and run:
fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1
and
fsck.ext3 /dev/hda2
Those should give you an idea if your filesystem is corrupt on either of
those partitions, and fix and the non-fatal problems.
Good luck,
Chad Martin
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