Xandros lost partitions

[volinaz at cox.net]

I had somethig similar happen to me last week.I had moved the hard drive to another box and it for some reason removed the mount points so it would not boot. I ran fsck and all the options. I also had to try to remount the drive and that did not work. I used knoppix to view the drive and all the data was there. In short I reinstalled the os on another drive copied the files I needed and that was it. Drove me nuts.. Good luck

Mike
> 
> From: Bob <rstark at bigfoot.com>
> Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 08:11:23 EDT
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Xandros lost partitions
> 
> Xandros seems to have gotten confused as to the location of several
> partitions. I can no longer access most of my hd when booted to it. I
> have DOS, 2 different OS/2 and Xandros version 3 in LILO.  All of these
> share a couple of partitions and when booted to anything but Linux I
> have free access to the partitions.
> 
> I had a working system until I tried to burn a CD as user. I received an
> informational message that the CD burning software wasn't installed. I
> located CDRAO? CDARO? and tried to install it. It said that it was
> already installed. I thought I'd uninstall then reinstall it rather then
> try to track down where it wasn't configured correctly. This did not
> help. I then thought I'd try as root. The burn failed the same way so I
> uninstalled then reinstalled. Still no luck with burning a CD. However
> when I logged on as user Xandros wouldn't start. Logging on as root
> resulted in the same problems.
> 
> Whenever I boot to Xandros graphical interface the Xandros splash screen
> comes up then the monitor goes black except for a blinking cursor in the
> upper left corner.
> If I boot to the command line as root I can access /root. I can see and
> access some of the directory off of /root.
> During boot up I can see that I get a couple of error messages. (After
> several reboots I could actually make out some things as they flashed
> by.) The two are: "Can't find fstab" and "can't find mtab. "
> mtab does not exist anywhere I can find it.
> fstab is completely hosed. I deleted it and made a new copy of a back up
> I have. It gets overwritten back to the hosed version by some other
> program at boot up.
> I ran parted and got : Error: no device found
> parted /hda results in Error:could not stat device /hda no such file or
> directory. /hdb gives the same error message. Opps I guess is should let
> you know that hda is DOS/OS/2 partitions and /hdb is the Linux stuff
> (mostly.)
> fdisk reports that it is unable to open the hd's as well.
> fdisk -l doesn't give any message at all.
> 
> I ran e2fsck and it reported that the superblock was corrupt and that I
> should try to restore from another copy. I could not locate another copy
> to try and restore from by running mke2fs -nb.
> 
> Does anyone not confused by all this have any ideas to regain access to
> the missing partitions? If I can supply any other info I will give you
> what I can. Long error messages are likely to be abridged as I have to
> reboot to Os/2 to get net access and I can't  save to any removable or
> accessible partitions from Xandros. Standard stupid quote coming. I only
> need to retrieve a couple of things and I can do a complete reinstall if
> need be. But I would really like not to lose these files. I was trying
> to back them up when all of this started. Honest!
>  Actually I have this Saturday off so I could bring this silly thing to
> Tempe if that would be better then email.
> 
> Bob
> 
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