[K12OSN] corrupt partition table
Rob Owens
hick518 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 1 13:41:02 UTC 2005
knoppix comes with gpart, but I don't know if it
handles LVM. A friend of mine had to use it once (not
on LVM) and he said it worked perfectly.
-Rob
--- Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> The power went out yesterday, and so my server went
> down. When the power came back on,
> the server tried to boot, but failed apparently
> because the partition table got
> corrupted--it just spits out a 'Insert boot disk'
> error. I booted from Knoppix and it
> was during that bootup that I saw the message about
> the partition table being bad. Once
> Knoppix is up, it doesn't show any hard drive
> partitions on its desktop, so that pretty
> much confirms it. Is there any way to deal with a
> trashed partition table? I figure
> I'll have to reformat and re-install, which is
> okay--a reason to upgrade from the
> K12LTSP version 3.1.2 that was on there. But there
> are a few files I'd like to retrieve
> beforehand if possible. Complicating the situation
> is that it was using LVM, although
> I'm not certain it was used for the root partition;
> unfortunately, I can't remember how
> it was layed out. But I think using LVM changes the
> way partitions are handled. Are
> there any tools for dealing with crippled LVM
> systems?
>
> Petre
>
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