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Hi all, |
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Over the weekend, I did a lot of software updates to my workstation. |
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Finally, I rebooted the system and it wouldn't boot. It reported a |
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kernel panic because it couldn't mount / (/dev/sda3) |
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Further investigation from a live CD (Ubuntu....) indicates that my |
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partition table has been modified! sda4 wasn't there when I installed |
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the system. The other 3 partitions seem reasonable. However, GRUB |
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can't identify the filesystem on either sda1 nor sda3. I'm also not |
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able to mount them from my live CD. Ubuntu doesn't even create device |
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files for anything other than /dev/sda, but it shows the other |
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partitions under fdisk. |
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Here is what I've got: |
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Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes |
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255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders |
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Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x9b889b88 |
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System |
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/dev/sda1 1 100 803218+ 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda2 101 225 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / |
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Solaris |
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/dev/sda3 226 38913 310761360 83 Linux |
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/dev/sda4 1 1 0 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 |
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So, I'm looking for advise. What should I try before I just blow it all |
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away and start over? I REALLY would like to get my system |
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restored/fixed, though. |
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Any ideas would be most appreciated. |
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Mike. |
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