Thanks Civilme for the tips.
However, when I get into rescue mode and type
fdisk -l /dev/hda
I get nothing but the prompt back. No error message.
When I try to mount, it doesn't give me an error, but
instead just doesn't mount anything.
Any additional suggestions?
Jessie B.
--- Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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