Re: [TCLUG:12789] bad day (update)

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

Usually you just go ahead and mount the old root drive.  It sounds like
your /etc/fstab (on the old drive) may be incorrect and/or your lilo.conf
file thinks root lives somewhere else that it's been configured with.  See
what fdisk has to say about your drive.  Then begin mounting partitions
(read-only to prevent accidents) and look for your old filesystem.  Maybe
someone was monkeying around with the system over the weekend?  Did the
power fail, etc?  The drive was improperly unmounted (hence the fsck
recommendation), so something must have crashed recently).

Peter Lukas

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> Here's a little progress report:
> 
> I wasn't able to get anything working by specifying any sort of init=
> parameter, so I downloaded a Slackware 4.0 boot floppy and the rescue
> disk.
> 
> After booting the Slack disk and rescue floppy, I started trying to poke
> around my system a bit. (The Slackware disk creates about a 4 MB system in
> RAM that you can use to do some simple fixes.) I created a 'root' and
> 'home' directory in the /mnt directory of the Slack ramdisk and tried to
> mount my / and /home partitions. The system told me that I should e2fsck
> the partitions first, so I did that and started looking.
> 
> First, I went to /mnt/root (should actually be my system /) and found that
> there was no /etc directory. I had /sbin, /var, and so on, but no /etc.
> Since /etc doesn't live in its own partition, it seems that it should have
> been there. Then I went to /mnt/home and found *nothing* but a lost+found
> directory. This is troubling to say the least.
> 
> Is it possible that my /home and /etc files have disappeared? I have a
> full system backup that's about two weeks old so I could get things back.
> (Assuming that I could run bru off of this Slackware system?) Any words of
> advice from anyone? Am I doing something incorrectly?
> 
> -Tim
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