> The "OS not found" part is somewhat scary. ... > I would fear hardware > damage or failure. =(
Me too, but it turns out that the system booted again after I poked around with LNX-BBC for a while. I ran fsck and fdisk ineptly, not sure what I did (if anything) that fixed things. Lucky. Not sure I trust it either. This box used to have this "os not found" problem often, until I put in a new hard disk and switched from w2k to linux. > > 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. Knoppix only mounts things read only, and does not give you root. I was using LNX-BBC, but that also failed to mount anything from my hard drive, if I am not mistaken. Nothing I did appeared to work, but when I was trying to switch from LNX-BBC to knoppix it accidentally booted from the hard drive. Was I surprised! > What distro was originally on the hard drive? redhat 7.3 > What filesystem? ext2, ext3, reiserfs, XFS, JFS, etc. [embarrassed} not sure. Whatever the default is for redhat install, probably. Since luau was down (for the same reason!) I sent my question to newchix, and got one page that looks helpful from them - <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash-rescue-HOWTO-2.html >. I wqas attempting to slog through that when my machine capitulated. Dave Dave
