On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 20:26 -0500, CHERMAN@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months trying to learn > about Linux. I now have a problem which I believe is unrecoverable, but > I would like to know if I did something to cause it. I had a computer > running FC3 and a week ago Saturday I shut down the computer while I > went on vacation for a week. When I got home I booted the computer and > used it for several hours. I then ran up2date and it seemed to be > successful. I decided to reboot and when I attempted to log out, the > computer appeared to lock up. I pushed the reset button and when the > computer attempted to reboot, I got a grub prompt. I used the rescue cd > to run linux rescue and it said that there were know linux partitions on > the drive. I ran sfdisk on /dev/hda (the drive on which FC3 was > installed) and got the following: > > Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... > BLKRRPART: Permission denied > OK > > Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > Old situation: > Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 79656/16/63). > For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 13 4997 4985 40042012+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > Any ideas would be appreciated? Just for informational purposes, before > I installed FC3 I was running WinXP and it crashed also. That's why I > installed FC3. Is it possible the hard drive is bad? > > Craig Herman > I had a similar problem couple of weeks ago and was told by a qualified PC engineer that either my processor was over heated or the motherboard was 'shocked'. So i changed the processor with no luck, and then also changed the motherboard and now nothing has gone wrong !!!! Kash
