This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what to do about it would be very welcome.
I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze, and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a Error 15: File not found. This was Ubuntu 8.04 I was able to swap to the second disk, and, editing root, was able to boot Debian AMD 64. The first disk (actually sdb) seems OK, I checked with fsck, BIOS recognises it, and I mounted /home partition and backed up -- for what was not already backed up. fsck has a problem with /dev/sdb3, which might be the swap ... I would like to get the OS back -- the 64 is for experimenting and does not have programs I use (and keyboard is eccentric); can I ? reinstall something? check something else? most of all though, what could have happened? I guess I know just enough to screw up. Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
