Help - I've completely borked up my linux

[Sam Varshavchik]

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.


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