Re: Hard Drive Problems

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Dave Lewis wrote:

> Modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22.

Your friend hasn't tried to recompile his kernel lately, has he?

> no such device while trying to open /dev/hdd1

This would be a symptom of the previous problem.  If the kernel he booted
with doesn't have proper support for IDE hard disks, then he won't get
very far trying to mount or fsck them.  However, his kernel and initrd
would still load and *try* to start the system.

> This error occured after a 15 minute power ottage in my city (ottawa).  Now
> my hard drive is whipped clean.

Or just unavailable...  Where was /dev/hdd1 supposed to be mounted?

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