Need Help with Knoppix

Michael Butash michael at butash.net
Mon Feb 3 17:47:37 MST 2014


Issue "dmesg | more" on the box, see if the kernel output is probing 
them, or what response they give to hda or sda drives.

-mb


On 02/03/2014 05:41 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a server that is having some boot problems. I inserted the 
> latest knoppix live CD and booted to a shell.  When I run sudo fdisk 
> -l There is nothing returned. The command does not fail, it just 
> does not find anything. I know there are two drives in the machine. Is 
> there some other magical incantation that I need to use to see the 
> drives? My goal is to run fsck on the drives to see if I can get them 
> back to a working condition, or failing that, pull some of the data 
> off of them. The original problem was the drive would not boot after a 
> reset.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> P.S. This is an old Dell, so the drives are old IDE drives.
>
>
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