Help - I've completely borked up my linux
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Tue Apr 24 23:46:30 UTC 2007
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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