> 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. Is it possible that the R/W head landed in the wrong sector causing everything to be thrown off. Then after several proper reboots it landed in the correct sector and found everything. I would do a thorough disk scan for bad sectors.
