HI!
So I have been running Breezy without a hitch for sometime. It's on its own harddrive and installed with the most default of installations. I cannot remember if I formatted using EXT2 or EXT3, though.
I did the update to Dapper. That also went without a hitch until I wasn't able to access files on the desktop using Konqueror. The permissions were set for root and I was a user. This became very frustrating so I did a CHOWN and the entire directory tree from root:root to user:user (user being generic for my profile name). I know before doing this that the /home folder was user:user as was a few other folders.
After I did that and was a happy camper, I powered down the machine and then booted up to use it again and now it hangs at the GRUB installer and returns an error 15.
I have tried to find a recovery application but they are too complicated and I am afraid I might write over the /home folder which has some files I want to retain.
I downloaded on another machine a KNOPPIX live CD. This is what I am using right now to write to you. KNOPPIX sees the harddrive as hda1 but says it cannot mount it. I ran FDISK -l and it sees the partition but no filesystem. When I run an application called TESTDRIVE that I found, it says it cannot find the filesystem.
Did the harddrive get trashed?
Is the filesystem really gone?
Is this just a Master Boot Record issue?
How do I fix this situation?
I do have the latest ALTERNATIVE Dapper CD.
Thank you in advance.
Bruce
So I have been running Breezy without a hitch for sometime. It's on its own harddrive and installed with the most default of installations. I cannot remember if I formatted using EXT2 or EXT3, though.
I did the update to Dapper. That also went without a hitch until I wasn't able to access files on the desktop using Konqueror. The permissions were set for root and I was a user. This became very frustrating so I did a CHOWN and the entire directory tree from root:root to user:user (user being generic for my profile name). I know before doing this that the /home folder was user:user as was a few other folders.
After I did that and was a happy camper, I powered down the machine and then booted up to use it again and now it hangs at the GRUB installer and returns an error 15.
I have tried to find a recovery application but they are too complicated and I am afraid I might write over the /home folder which has some files I want to retain.
I downloaded on another machine a KNOPPIX live CD. This is what I am using right now to write to you. KNOPPIX sees the harddrive as hda1 but says it cannot mount it. I ran FDISK -l and it sees the partition but no filesystem. When I run an application called TESTDRIVE that I found, it says it cannot find the filesystem.
Did the harddrive get trashed?
Is the filesystem really gone?
Is this just a Master Boot Record issue?
How do I fix this situation?
I do have the latest ALTERNATIVE Dapper CD.
Thank you in advance.
Bruce
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