FC5 unbootable after yesterday's updates

[Claude Jones]

Claude Jones wrote:
| Jonathan Underwood wrote:
| 
|| On 09/06/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
|| 
||| I've been on location in Washington for the past two days.
||| Thanks for yours, and the other response(s). Last night, I
||| was able to boot a couple of rescue cd's, and it appears that
||| I may have a bad sector on my system drive. I can't mount my
||| / partition, which is separate from the /boot partition, so
||| maybe that explains all the errors. More diagnostics
||| tonight... 
|| 
|| 
|| If I was you, at this point I'd focus on making sure your user
|| data is properly backed up elsewhere, as it sounds like your
|| drive might be failing.... 
|| 
|| Sometimes this is useful in such miserable situations:
|| http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
|| 
| Yes, I've got ultimateboot. I'm going to run spinrite on the
| drive when I get home. There's not a lot of precious data on
| this machine, as I just built it two weeks ago. I'll also try
| the FC5 rescue cd, which I didn't have last night. I was using
| the MEPIS liveCD from several versions back, so it may have not
| been up to the task. 

Just to update. Ran Spinrite on the drive last night, and it found
no problems. So this appears to be a corruption of FC5. Probing
for cause now. 

Claude Jones
Levit & James, Inc./WTVS
Leesburg, VA, USA