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 > Date: 2005/09/22 Thu AM 08:11:23 EDT > To: plug-discuss@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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss