Claude Jones wrote: | Jonathan Underwood wrote: | || On 09/06/06, Claude Jones <claude_jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: || ||| I've been on location in Washington for the past two days. ||| Thanks for yours, and the other response(s). Last night, I ||| was able to boot a couple of rescue cd's, and it appears that ||| I may have a bad sector on my system drive. I can't mount my ||| / partition, which is separate from the /boot partition, so ||| maybe that explains all the errors. More diagnostics ||| tonight... || || || If I was you, at this point I'd focus on making sure your user || data is properly backed up elsewhere, as it sounds like your || drive might be failing.... || || Sometimes this is useful in such miserable situations: || http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ || | Yes, I've got ultimateboot. I'm going to run spinrite on the | drive when I get home. There's not a lot of precious data on | this machine, as I just built it two weeks ago. I'll also try | the FC5 rescue cd, which I didn't have last night. I was using | the MEPIS liveCD from several versions back, so it may have not | been up to the task. Just to update. Ran Spinrite on the drive last night, and it found no problems. So this appears to be a corruption of FC5. Probing for cause now. Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
