Re: [PLUG] grub or hosed?

[Gordon Dexter <gordon@texasdex.com>]

Casey Bralla wrote:

On Sunday 22 February 2009 3:30:36 pm jeff wrote:
  

Casey Bralla wrote:
    

Reinstalling is probably your best bet, since God only knows what went
wrong. However....
      

It gets better.... the  Xubuntu installer just told me the Ext3
partition just formatted is no good.

Uh-oh.
    

Which is most likely your root problem, or...   Your partition table was hosed 
and its lying to you now.

Have you tried System Rescue CD?   

Personally, I __like__ having to reinstall, but you may want to be sure you've 
exhausted all possiblities before doing so

What does fdisk say?  If your partition table might be damaged it would be the first program I'd go to.  Right after getting all data in /home backed up to a separate drive(!).

--Gordon

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