On 3/1/2011 12:43 AM, Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "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 Thanks! Seems so obvious in hindsight.
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