On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 11:58, Thomas David Burns wrote: > A power outage at UH last night zapped one of my linux boxes, now it > say "OS not found" when I try to boot. > > Ideally I'd like to get it to boot normally again without wiping out > the data, or find a way to get some of the data off before re- > installing the OS. > > I have a linux bootable business card that supposedly has > repair/recovery utilities on it that I am able to boot with. But I am > completely clueless how to proceed after that. This is an area > my "linux administration" books don't mention. > > There has got to be a book or a good web page out there on this topic. > How do I find them? When I google on "repair" and "linux" I get massive > amounts of irrelevant hits. > > I guess I have to try to mount the hard drive and check it out. What > tools do I use? > > Dave
The "OS not found" part is somewhat scary. If this happened immediately after the power glitch, then I would fear hardware damage or failure. =( What you can try is to mount your partitions from a rescue disk. Your Knoppix is a pretty good rescue disk, alternatively Red Hat or Mandrake's Disk 1 have excellent Rescue functionality too. What distro was originally on the hard drive? What filesystem? ext2, ext3, reiserfs, XFS, JFS, etc. Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED]
