Help - I've completely borked up my linux

[Knute Johnson]

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...