ajlewis wrote:
> If you cannot get mounted on anything and can't find a partition table
with
> 'fdisk /dev/hdb' then you might want to try gpart or rescuept for finding
> the partition info and then rewriting the table with fdisk.
--snip--
> Forget this! I was thinking of booting with a rescue disk. If your boot
> floppy gets the system booted, then I would think that / is fine.
> Maybe the output from df and 'fdisk -l' would give some ideas here. I was
> thinking running lilo would help, but I see that it has not.
All right, I ran gpart on hda and hdb and recieved the following output. I
installed gpart with apt-get, so I don't think that my partitions are really
toasted. The gpart output passes a basic reality check. The fdisk output
looks strange to me in that hdb5~=hdb4, but cfdisk reports hdb5 as being
about 2GB. So, maybe that is the expected output. The output from df is
also what I expected.
As another data point, the last operational cycle, before adding the
partition, was the first time that /dev/hda1 and /dev/cdrw were mounted,
with the following fstab entrys:
/dev/hda1 /winxp ntfs ro,user 0 2
/dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660,udf ro,user, noauto
The 2.4.18 kernel has ntfs read-only support built as a module, and
/dev/cdrw is a symlink to /dev/sr1.
What if I am going about this the wrong way? Suppose that MBR(s) is/are
damaged? Will fsck(8) detect this type of damage? My reading of the man
page says that it doesn't.
Thanks,
Jonathan
-- data follows --
Here is the information from gpart:
gpart /dev/hdb
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(486MB), offset(0MB)
Possible partition(Linux swap), size(972MB), offset(486MB)
Possible partition(Linux ext2), size(29298MB), offset(1459MB)
Possible extended partition at offset(30757MB).
Killed the application during scan after 2 hours. (searching the free space)
gpart /dev/hda
Possible partition (Windows NT/W2K FS), size(19092MB), offset(0MB)
Guessed primary partition table:
Primary partition(1)
type: 007(0x07)(OS/2 HPFS, NTFS, QNX or Advanced UNIX)
size: 19092MB #s(39102144) s(63-39102206)
chs: (0/1/1)-(1023/254/63)d (0/1/1)-(2433/254/60)r
Primary partition(2)
unused
Primary partition(3)
unused
Primary partition(4)
unused
Here is the information from fdisk -l
device boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2434 19551073+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb1 * 1 62 497983+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 63 86 996030 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 187 3921 30001387+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 3922 4164 1951897+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 3922 4164 1951866 83 Linux
Here is the information from df -h
Filesys Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1 471M 390M 56M 88% /
/dev/hdb3 28G 12G 15G 42% /usr
Trying to open MFT
/dev/hda1 19G 18G 848M 96% /winxp
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