Re: [gentoo-user] Need to recover corrupt disk drive...

2008-12-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 08 Dezember 2008, Mike wrote: = > > So, I'm looking for advise. What should I try before I just blow it all > away and start over? I REALLY would like to get my system > restored/fixed, though. testdisk. It can find and recover partitions

[gentoo-user] Need to recover corrupt disk drive...

2008-12-08 Thread Mike
Hi all, Over the weekend, I did a lot of software updates to my workstation. Finally, I rebooted the system and it wouldn't boot. It reported a kernel panic because it couldn't mount / (/dev/sda3) Further investigation from a live CD (Ubuntu) indicates that my partition table has been modifi