I was doing some work with gimp the other day, when the computer froze. There was nothing to do but press the reset button, and when it came back, the message indicated that the hard drive was no longer available (insert system disk and press enter). Can I get my hd back, or do I need to reformat and re-install? I can boot to the hard disk by using the boot disk that came with SuSE (6.3), so it's sort of usable, but I'd hate to have to clean the disk and re-install. I've updated a lot of packages, and it's the server for my home LAN. Thanks, Stan Koper -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Boot on the install disk. Mount the installed file system. Run yast and install LILO again. Usually that get me out of strife...... Then do a backup ..regularly:) Chris On Wed, 3 May 2000 06:47:42 -0400, Stan Koper wrote:
I was doing some work with gimp the other day, when the computer froze. There was nothing to do but press the reset button, and when it came back, the message indicated that the hard drive was no longer available (insert system disk and press enter).
Can I get my hd back, or do I need to reformat and re-install? I can boot to the hard disk by using the boot disk that came with SuSE (6.3), so it's sort of usable, but I'd hate to have to clean the disk and re-install. I've updated a lot of packages, and it's the server for my home LAN.
Thanks,
Stan Koper
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Depending on what, if any damage was done, if it was only your MBR that was hosed, rerunning LILO should correct your situation as Chris points out. I try to keep some stand-alone tools to repair my system: 1. Bootable DOS disk with fdisk. The MS-DOS fdisk can be used to rebuild the MBR. 2. Good partitioning tool, such as Partition Magic. 3. Stand-alone Linux. The SuSE boot disk can serve in this capacity most of the time. Once Yast or Yast2 starts, ctl-alt F3 should give you a shell prompt. (I think the F1 and F2 shells are used). "Stan Koper" wrote:
Can I get my hd back, or do I need to reformat and re-install? I can boot to the hard disk by using the boot disk that came with SuSE (6.3), so it's sort of usable, but I'd hate to have to clean the disk and re-install. I've updated a lot of packages, and it's the server for my home LAN.
"CN Davies" wrote:
Boot on the install disk.
Mount the installed file system. Run yast and install LILO again.
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