On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:37:12 +0000
David
Bit stuck with Rene's method. Tried fsck but that just returned to the command line, don't know if it should have any parameters with it. Looked it up in the manual, but it was not on the page they said it was.
I still think that Rene's method offers the better way forward and I am
reluctant to encourage you to go further with fsck until you have used it. The
reason is that if the problem is simply that your root partition cannot be
found, rather than being internally corrupt, then fsck will not help.
I read your reply to Rene, and he may have his own better response than this,
but, bearing in mind that you are just feeling your way here, and if he does not
have a quicker solution, may I suggest that you do the following to help us to
help you.
(1) Start the rescue system.
(2) It appears from your earlier posts that linux is on a second physical (as
opposed to logical), drive - ie that it is on hdb. If that is right enter, as
root,