Re: unbootable sys after power loss

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 10:44 AM 10/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>My Mandrake6.0 system is unbootable now after power loss.  Powering back up,
>I fsck'ed, but I think some critical inodes or files or something got
>corrupted.  Now it hangs in the middle of booting up, just as it's
>attempting to load sound.  I don't know how to boot up now, OR what to do to
>fix problems if it ever did boot up.  Simple solution?  Or easier to just
>re-install all?

Is it possible that the power loss toasted the sound card?
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