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flipnode
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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: Hard Drive issues - fdisk and boot issues ( RESOLVED ) |
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I recently had a hard reboot do the switch being hit on my surge protector. I am having issues mounting my /dev/hda drive now. I have booted to the live cd and tried to fdisk /dev/hda, and says it can't read the drive. This drive shows up fine as a device and is listed in my bios. I have an ext3 partitioning scheme. What command checks should I run on this drive? I really hoped this drive isn't fried.
Getting erros like. end_request I/O error device when trying to run e2fsck.
During boot I get : recovery required on readonly filesystem
hda : dma_timer_expiry : dma status = 0x21
Any ideas ?! Need the help. I've searched all over the forums and can't find my answer.
Thanks, peeps!
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morodoch
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:20 am Post subject: |
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sounds like you disc may be broken...
try a rescue cd
If you can't get at the partition table with fdisk, you'll have a problem reading any other data.
Is the data valuable?
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flipnode
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:55 pm Post subject: Oh boy. |
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What rescue disk do you recommend? The data on this drive is my webserver which was newly installed 2 weeks ago. Only thing on the drive are the sites, but I have them backed up in a SVN repository on another system. I just don't wanna rebuild this thing again. I was just going to setup a backup scheme for the partitions, but didn't get a chance. Poop!
How is the rescue disk going to help me? Thanks for responding.
I'm going to try this one.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
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flipnode
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| Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:35 pm Post subject: Recovery worked |
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i used this recovery cd and its nice, has cool features. Even some tab control on your mounted partitions. Shows you mounted partitions left, during your process of unmounting for a reboot.
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for some reason I could now fdisk. I did mess with the IDE cables in the box and that seemed to help. Be careful not to run the mbr tool on that recovery cd, b/c it dropped my grub and I had to install grub again to the mbr.
Issue Resolved.
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morodoch
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Yeah, I use the system rescue CD too, at work. It's good, because it's based on gentoo so things like lvm2 work.
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