On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:32:47AM -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
I had the exact same problems the other day. One of my
problems appeared to be a
curropt partition table. I thought I was experiencing hard drive
failure. I don't think it booted from a knoppix disk unless I removed my hard
drive for some reason. I later bought a new drive and installed debian
on it and then installed my old drive. I booted from the new disk and
was able to mount /dev/hdb6 my old home partition. I extreacted it from
there. I later repartitioned/reformated the entire disk with the mke2fs -c -c option
to find out that it did not report any bad blocks at all. Yeah but
accessing the drive with the corrupt partition table would make linux
crash.
Bad RAM can misleadingly look like disk problems. Happened to me once.
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Paul Winkler
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