/boot partition

[drum]

After formatting /boot on hdb, I was dismayed to find the hda /boot was also wiped clean (no boot floppy either). Is there any way of "rescueing" this mess without reinstalling to get all the files I need.

[Ixthusdan]

Would you please explain more of what you were doing and what the system looked like prior to the mishap?

[bvc]

urpmi parted

parted --help (to see the options)

parted -i /dev/hda

then try the rescue option and see if it can find it. Whether you let it try or not is up to you. It has worked for me a few times.....failed once.

[drum]

Thanks bvc, the partition is still there, it just got formatted and is now empty. Not familiar with the -i option on parted. I have only used it to recover partition tables.

 

Ix, everything was going normal until I rebooted after using drakX(?) to rename partitions on hdb and resized and formatted /hdb/boot. My mistake for taking the easy way out and trusting that thing.

 

In rescue mode, I chroot /mnt and /boot is empty. No config, initrd, vmlinuz, nothing.

[bvc]

I know everything can be put back. How?....exactly? Not sure on a few things. Getting the kernel and bootloader will be easy but there's a few things in boot I wouldn't have a clue about, much less exactly what those would be off the top of my head. Replace the kernel/config/System.map/initrd and force an uninstall of the bootloader and reinstall it. Post the contents of the new /boot and we can go from there. I hope.

Edited April 6, 2004 by bvc