Hi, There's an article in the current linux planet newsletter (8 july) that may help:
Rescuing Linux Systems--Generic and Distribution-Specific Safety Nets <http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/4294/1/> The time comes when every Linux system administrator experiences a system failure. And while hardware failures are simpiler to contend with, the true twilight zone for system administrators occurs when an otherwise useful system is unbootable due to disk corruption or accidental system misconfiguration. Bill von Hagen reveals how you can regain access to your data when things go suddenly awry. good luck peter bj >On the weekend I was making an attempt to install Debian on an old IDE >drive in a friends PC and in using fdisk I somehow seem to have snarfed the >partition table. I'm not sure what I did (it was late and I should have >been in bed) but now any attempt to use fdisk on the disk complains that >the partition table is not readable. >I believe the disk is physically okay but I don't know any way of >unsnarling it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
