System Recovery

[Labitt, Bruce]

I'm thinking at this point perhaps I should detach the problem 80GB disk
and fresh install 5.2 on the 300GB disk.  Afterwards I could attach the
old 80GB disk and see if I can extract anything.  Does this sound like
it would be the safest course of action at this point?

-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-bounces at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Jarod
Wilson
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:26 PM
To: Greater NH Linux User Group
Subject: RE: System Recovery

On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 16:25 -0400, Labitt, Bruce wrote:
> I just ran the SL5.2 CD1 and typed linux rescue.  It ran a bunch of
> stuff and got to a colored (bright blue with red writing) display.  It
> installed some ata_piix ??

It loaded the ata_piix module, as it detected you had a controller
driven by it.

> stuff then back to black screen a long list
> of hex addresses? then
> 
> install exited abnormally [1/1]
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> disabling swap...
> 	/mnt/runtime done
> 	disabling /dev/loop0
> 	/proc/bus/usb done
> 	/proc done
> 	/dev/pts done
> 	/sys done
> 	/tmp/ramfs done
> 	/mnt/source done
> you may safely reboot your system

Ew, that sounds... bad. Although it sounds like it didn't actually go
into the rescue env. but rather tried to install, based on the "install
exited abnormally" message.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com

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