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Re: [PLUG] Totally Hosed my system!!!!!!
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I used the boot disk that came with my Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. It forces
you to use the GUI install. I assume that this provides the same
information that fdisk would. It showed me the following:
/dev/hda 2014MB dos/win
/dev/hdb 12410MB nothing
I take it from this that i am totally screwed!!!!! Can someone please
tell me what i did so i won't ever do this again.
TIA
Jon
Darxus wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Quincy wrote:
>
> > Don't know how I did it but my system wont boot!! Here is what I was
> > doing before this occurred....
> > I was logged on a root (of course) and was trying to use GUI/bru to back
> > up my XFree86 files so that i could upgrade Xfree86. I created a new
> > device under the config utility (/dev/hdb)and started the back up. It
> > looked like it was going to take forever so i canceled the back up.
> > Later i noticed that when I went to the root folder in KDE it said
> > "empty folder" (not good). So I new I was screwed. So I figured what
> > the hell why not reboot I am already screwed (probably not a good
> > idea). When I re-boot I get the message "KERNEL PANIC: VFS: Unable to
> > mount root fs on 03:41"
> > Am I totally screwed and should i just re-install or can the dumb
> > actually be lucky and is there a way out? Also what the hell
> > happened?!?!?!?!?
>
> Boot off of a rescue disk. The first boot floppy in a linux distribution
> install set is usually also a rescue disk. Install CDs may work as well.
> Images of rescue disks can be downloaded from any linux distribution site,
> and written to floppys with the rawrite.exe program.
>
> Once you've booted off of the rescue disk, run fdisk. You'll get a prompt
> like: "Command (m for help):". Hit "p" (print the partition table).
>
> Reply to this email and tell us what it says when you tell it to print the
> partition table. Hopefully you'll get something like:
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 782 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8064 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 712 2870752+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 713 782 282240 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 713 745 133024+ 82 Linux swap
>
> Command (m for help): m
>
> Look at the last column. You should have one that says "Linux". Now look
> first column on that same line. In this example, it says "/dev/hda1".
> I'll assume you've got a partition type "Linux" on device "/dev/hda1", but
> your device may very well be different. Hit "q" (quit without saving
> changes).
>
> Now you're going to try to mount this device. You need a mount point,
> which is just an empty directory. Very often "/mnt" exists as an empty
> directory or rescue disks for just this purpose. "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt"
> should work. If you don't get an error, "cd /mnt" and look around -- see
> if it contains the files you'd expect to find in "/" on your machine. If
> it does, there is very real hope. If not, you're probably screwed.
>
> If your files do still exist, the next thing I'd try is verifying that
> your /etc/lilo.conf (which would be mounted as /mnt/etc/lilo.conf) was
> correct, and try re-running it. You'll need to run lilo as "lilo -r
> /mnt", to tell it where the filesystem it's config file is mounted on is.
>
> Sucks when that happens.... especially when in the process of attempting
> backups.
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