Hi, I'm trying to rescue some data from a box where the hard disc *may* have failed. I had a few drive not ready notices, and needed to do fsck -y to fix all the numerous errors it complained about when trying to just do fsck, but then the problem originated from a wonky 4 pin power plug on the drive. So I don't know if the drive really failed, or it just got contents scrambled. If there really isn't anything wrong with the drive, I might as well keep using it. Are those "drive not ready" messages always about real drive hardware faults? Now, if I try to boot up normally, there's a lot of protests about not being able to find the users needed by some services (root, named, and so on...), nor any user. So it looks like some important files got borked, but I'm not sure what files are used for authentication, these days. The obvious password and group files looks okay. Any clues on this front? I've got other very similarly set up boxes I could copy files from. This PC, unfortunately, I let set itself up with volumegroups, but my other PCs I set up with ordinary ext3 partitions. I could probably stick the drive into another PC without too many problems. If I boot up with init=/bin/sh on the end of the kernel line, the computer does boot, and I seem to be able to read the data that I want to save (mostly local webpages, and a few server configuration files). -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
