So you can get a root shell? Check /etc/fstab to see
if it is pointing
to the right places, particular that "/" is pointing to the right
device.
you know, it's not a normal "root" shell - not that I know what I'm
talking
about there - but its prompt is
(repair file system) #
and you can't just change to /etc (unless i'm crazy or something) - you
gotta like go find /dev/hdb3 or hda2 or whatnot - it took a little sniffing
to get to /etc - - but now that I think about it, maybe I was crazy.
I will try again to make sure.
I'm still kind of curious as to the CAUSE of this problem. I didn't expect
that an ardour crash could corrupt the file system or maybe even the
physical disk, and that's what started the mess - unless that was a
coincidence... hmmm...