FC3 gone
CHERMAN at gt.rr.com
CHERMAN at gt.rr.com
Thu Jul 7 01:26:51 UTC 2005
I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months trying to learn
about Linux. I now have a problem which I believe is unrecoverable, but
I would like to know if I did something to cause it. I had a computer
running FC3 and a week ago Saturday I shut down the computer while I
went on vacation for a week. When I got home I booted the computer and
used it for several hours. I then ran up2date and it seemed to be
successful. I decided to reboot and when I attempted to log out, the
computer appeared to lock up. I pushed the reset button and when the
computer attempted to reboot, I got a grub prompt. I used the rescue cd
to run linux rescue and it said that there were know linux partitions on
the drive. I ran sfdisk on /dev/hda (the drive on which FC3 was
installed) and got the following:
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Permission denied
OK
Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 79656/16/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 13 4997 4985 40042012+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Any ideas would be appreciated? Just for informational purposes, before
I installed FC3 I was running WinXP and it crashed also. That's why I
installed FC3. Is it possible the hard drive is bad?
Craig Herman
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