MBR gone and rescue disc not happy - HELP!!!!

[Alan Cox]

> > Actual exact message text is good, thats why error handlers don't
> > just all print "It broke"
> 
> The error is along the lines of some of the devices have failed to mount. I'm
> assuming that when the rescue disc boots, it reads the fstab on the drive it's
> trying to mount and use them. The only one which looks like it's failed to
> mount is /dev/hda1 which is where the /boot directory is.

Ok you should have an /sbin/MAKEDEV

You can use that to make any device nodes you need

fd, hd and sd should be enough