* Tyler Littlefield <compgeek13 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hay, is there a way to rescue debian? > for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings > when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it, > because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system > found." You mean the global root-directory "/"? Ouch. It depends on your filesystem. With ext2 you have good chances to be able to restore files using e2undel. But with a journal file system (ext3, xfs,...) it's very hard to restore files. :-/ Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;) HTH && regards, -mika- -- ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -? Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/
