Thanks to all for the advice but I decided to cut my loses and re-install. Not to say I'm not a little distressed about this -- it's the first time I've never been able to recover <sigh>. Best I take a mondo image :-)
Just to let you know what finally led to my decision: I posted a message to the reiserfs and got a reply (from Oleg Drokin at namesys) suggesting that I try reiserfsck --rebuild-sb which I did this looked promising but I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it aborted saying that there was no metadata. I then mkfs'ed the partition and did what I *thought* I did only this time it didn't destroy my partition. The only thing I can think of here is that grub did something unusual (unlikely) or I did something else (most likely). Given that I don't have a heavily modified system I just thought I'd cut my loses. I've still got the image of the partition so I might have a bit of a play at some stage -- I'll post a message if I have any joy. rgh -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
