Re: (re-)boot woes - SOLVED

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
OK guys -- end of problem. After a weekend's crash course in data recovery and forensics, I'm now back to where I was four days ago -- despite a professional (and highly competent) data recovery company quoting me £350 + VAT to get my pictures back, and advising me to just re-format my disk an

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
[please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: Today I noticed 'testdisk' in the archive. apt-cache show testdisk TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks. It is very useful in recovering lost partitions. Thanks for the

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
[please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kevin Mark wrote: I noticed a program called 'recoverjpeg'. If you have jpeg this may be a savior (although I have not used this program). Thanks for the pointer. Most of the files are, in fact, jpegs; although there

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
[please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Bob Proulx wrote: Now, any attempt to boot from rescue disk using linu[z|x] root=/dev/hda2 results in: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) This looks like an initrd problem. As in that the kernel

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Kevin Mark wrote: > > Martin Wheeler wrote: > > > [please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] > > I noticed a program called 'recoverjpeg'. If you have jpeg this may be a > savior (although I have not used this program). Today I noticed 'testdisk' in the archive. apt-cache show testd

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 12:31:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Martin Wheeler wrote: > > [please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] > > > > Problem: > > I just hosed a Toshiba Satellite 1110 laptop (multi-boot: XP and three > > different kernels of Debian testing - 2.6.8, 2.4.27 & 2.4.

Re: (re-)boot woes

2005-08-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Martin Wheeler wrote: > [please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] > > Problem: > I just hosed a Toshiba Satellite 1110 laptop (multi-boot: XP and three > different kernels of Debian testing - 2.6.8, 2.4.27 & 2.4.26) by trying to > add SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, which barfed on

(re-)boot woes

2005-08-07 Thread Martin Wheeler
[please cc any reply as not always subscribed to list] Problem: I just hosed a Toshiba Satellite 1110 laptop (multi-boot: XP and three different kernels of Debian testing - 2.6.8, 2.4.27 & 2.4.26) by trying to add SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, which barfed on the re-boot. [L 07 07 07 recurrin