On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:35:35PM +0200, php@nickselby.com wrote:
Hmm. Dave, or anyone, Let's say for fun's sake that it's a corrupt partition table. What would I do to rectify the situation?
You have a very perverted definition of 'fun'... :-) As for how to rectify the situation... Not sure really. Hopefully other people might have an idea. Try running 'fdisk' on the drive (/dev/hda), then trying to print the partition table ('p'). It might also be worth running a full fsck if you're willing to risk shutting the machine down. I'm not sure whether you can do this from the SuSE rescue disk; you might have to either play around with booting your machine in single-user mode and mounting the root FS read-only, or you could download a copy of something like tomsrtbt and boot and fsck from that.
And I made the backup, thanks!
Of course, I could be talking total rubbish, and it could be something totally benign, but better to have a backup that's never needed than not to have a backup that you *do* need... :-) -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England