On Sunday 25 March 2001 13:05, you wrote:
> I've found out that my boot partition is corrupted. I
> don't know anything else beyond that, except that when
> in grub I try to find vmlinuz, nothing is returned. I
> can still get to my Windows side and backup all data
> there. Is there anyway to get to the Linux data from
> the Windows side to archive it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jessie B.
>
Well, slow down there, Tex. We don't need to shoot the disk quite yet.
Try this
Put in your CD and boot. When the splash screen appears hit F1 then type
"rescue" (without the quotes). and hit return. When the rescue prompt comes
up, do this
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
That will give you all of your partitions in a list--do you remember which
one was root?
If you do not, then do this for each partition
# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt #the 5 is an example--look at your partition table and
# use only those linux native not swap
# cd /mnt/etc # if you do NOT get an error message, you have found your root
# umount /dev/hda5 # assuming you have not found it go to the next
Once you have found your old root partition do this
# mount /dev/hda8 /mnt (You may have this mounted already from steps)
# chroot mount
# cat /etc/fstab
You can use the output of the cat command to mount your other partitions.
Now you can archive... You can also try to restore the boot with /sbin/lilo
or the equivalent for grub.
Civileme
