This WON't be easy if you're systemdisk is really damaged. It's pretty hard to explain this in an email because of the variety of conditions, let us know if you're getting somewhere or feeling rather lost.
Did you allready boot into single user mode and run efsck2 ? Maybe you're just experiencing some other problem than real-life disk damage. Your system had a powerfailure and your filetables are messed up ... It boot's ? Take a look at step one and two below. Start making backups NOW. then reinstall your system, it's likely that it suffered a lot of damage. Some scenario = first of all : GET yourself some bootdisk/cd wich can be used to mount the root filesystem if that succeeded look for /boot and copy these contents to somewhere safe (will restore other kernels also, might want to narrow down the selection a bit) if there IS no /boot t you'll probably have to mount it, make sure you know wich is wich and go for a backup all the same second : you could try to see if your /usr/src directory's are intact, if you were smart enough to save your kernelconfig into a config file back up this file and start to reinstall, this would be the most flexible way to go. Do you remember if you did and where you left the config file ? Doesn't boot ? : if your drive is really seriously damaged start reading up on configuring SMP kernels, you'll HAVE to do it again with another disk. Good Luck to you, joris -----Original Message----- From: JACKSON, DEAN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 27 maart 2001 16:33 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: kernel question Help my hard drive has sustained very large physical damage. it boots sort of. as I use a multi processor system I would like to keep my kernel (it was a pain to configure) what is the best way of backing up my kernel? and restoring it! Dean Jackson TeleWare email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone 01908 251474 <<Dean Jackson (E-mail).vcf>> ________________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses, by Star Internet, delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Control Centre. For further information visit: http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp
