On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Nelson Serafica <[email protected]>wrote:
> One of my machine stops from running. I forgot the error on the screen (it > was about the hard disk). I just quickly restarted the machine. However, > when booting up I don't see the grub menu. Instead, it lead me directly to > grub shell (if that what is was called). I see grub> on the screen. I tried > to press tab twice to check available commands but it was very limited. It > seems the OS or the kernel was not booted at all. To lessen the damage and the time to recover, you might want to use a separate /boot partition. The /boot contains your kernel files and your initial ram disk. The initrd image contains a copy of fsck so you can use it for fs recovery. Your drive was probably doing a lot of writes when the power was cut off. Holden
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