Help - I've completely borked up my linux
Knute Johnson
linux at rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com
Wed Apr 25 22:39:31 UTC 2007
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Knute Johnson writes:
>
>> I was playing around trying to install xubuntu on a usb doover and
>> somehow I completely borked up my FC6 installation. I have a
>> computer with two hard drives. On the first drive is Win XP and the
>> second had (and I think still does but borked) FC6. I went to boot
>> it after I got done playing with the xubuntu and FC6 wouldn't start.
>> It starts to come up but about the time it goes looking for the
>> drives it panics saying it can't find /dev/root. I booted the FC6
>> Rescue CD and it says there are no Linux partitions. I ran fdisk and
>> looked at /dev/sdb and it says there are two partitions, sdb1 and 2
>> and 1 is marked bootable.
>>
>> Am I completely hosed or do you think I can recover from here?
>
> If the rescue CD cannot find your Linux partitions, you're pretty much
> borked. Someone who knows what they're doing might be able to salvage
> a few things, but there's no cookie-cutter "follow-the-numbers" recipe
> for recovering from that kind of borkage. You have to examine things
> in details, and basically take it one step at a time.
>
Thanks Sam. I couldn't find any other solution than to reload so that's
the plan. That will teach me to be more careful with dangerous tools.
Thanks,
knute...
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