FC3 gone
Kaushik Chauhan
chauhan_kash at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jul 7 09:34:04 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 20:26 -0500, CHERMAN at gt.rr.com wrote:
> I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months trying to learn
> about Linux. I now have a problem which I believe is unrecoverable, but
> I would like to know if I did something to cause it. I had a computer
> running FC3 and a week ago Saturday I shut down the computer while I
> went on vacation for a week. When I got home I booted the computer and
> used it for several hours. I then ran up2date and it seemed to be
> successful. I decided to reboot and when I attempted to log out, the
> computer appeared to lock up. I pushed the reset button and when the
> computer attempted to reboot, I got a grub prompt. I used the rescue cd
> to run linux rescue and it said that there were know linux partitions on
> the drive. I ran sfdisk on /dev/hda (the drive on which FC3 was
> installed) and got the following:
>
> Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
> BLKRRPART: Permission denied
> OK
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Old situation:
> Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
> for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 79656/16/63).
> For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
>
> Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 13 4997 4985 40042012+ 8e Linux LVM
> /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
> /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated? Just for informational purposes, before
> I installed FC3 I was running WinXP and it crashed also. That's why I
> installed FC3. Is it possible the hard drive is bad?
>
> Craig Herman
>
I had a similar problem couple of weeks ago and was told by a qualified
PC engineer that either my processor was over heated or the motherboard
was 'shocked'. So i changed the processor with no luck, and then also
changed the motherboard and now nothing has gone wrong !!!!
Kash
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