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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