>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Thoen <[email protected]> writes:
Bill> My super-cheep China-made PC clone running FC5 died last weekend Bill> after a power failure and the disc drive was off for a day or Bill> two. It never recovered. When I powered up on Monday, the CPU Bill> fan would switch on normally and that's all it would do. No Bill> boot, didn't even get to grub. Everybody in the office here Bill> told me that it was the motherboard. Well I have backups and it Bill> wasn't a front-line machine anyway, but I still would rather get Bill> the old disk running than dig out the archives because my Bill> backups are not up to the minute. Bill> So I had another old machine that worked and I removed its Bill> drives and stuck this other machine's drive in its place and Bill> tried to boot it. What I got was basically no drive info Bill> found. It couldn't find VolGroup01 and then it couldn't find Bill> other system files it was looking for and it froze at switchroot Bill> failed to mount... The setup menu can see the disk Bill> though. Could it be a conflict in what was in CMOS memory, or Bill> something like that? Does one not "just swap drives" on linux Bill> machines like that? Don't try to boot, use a live-CD or something, and then *mount* the drives from the dead system (read-only, if possible). Then copy whatever you need (possibly everything) onto another machine or disk or whatever you think is best for you. Keep the old disks intact to preserve your options, at least until you are absolutely certain you have everything you need off of them. -- Russell Senior, President [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
