On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Anne Wilson wrote: > My main workstation is awaiting its turn to move to FC4, and was running > Mandriva. I now find that I cannot boot from the primary drive at all. It > looks as though something desperate has happened to the MBR, where lilo > lived. > > Checking my data backup, I find that I have missed a whole, vitally important, > directory. I need to get that data to a safe place before trying anything in > the way of rescue. > > I have got knoppix 3.2 up and can see the files. I've got a pen-drive mounted > as root, but can't copy the files onto it. Trying > cp /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ /mnt/sde gets > cp: omitting directory /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ "cp -a" ?? rday
