Hi Joe, Thanks for your advice. Problem solved now. I used the boot diskette booting RH9 box automatically. Then after "fsck /dev/hdeX' all partitions the box revived. The remaining problem is 'thunderbird' can't start. It is 'thunderbird' causing the collapse of the box. I shall solve this problem separately. One thing I could not resolve; # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hde: 10.2 GB, 10245537792 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1245 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hde2 14 78 522112+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde3 79 736 5285385 83 Linux /dev/hde4 737 1245 4088542+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hde5 737 1245 4088511 83 Linux According to my recollection I only created 4 partitions /boot /swap /root /home How can a 5th partition come? Is it /boot hde1 /swap hde2 /root hde3 /home hde5 Is /hde4 the extended partition of /hde3, I have not created it if I remember correctly. How can it come. Could you please shed me some light. Thanks B.R. Stephen On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 21:45, Joe Polk wrote: > Can you mount the partition if you boot with a rescue disk? This looks like > your best hope. Mount it, remove what you need, rebuild. Unfortunately, you > may not have much choice. > > <<JAV>> > > ---------- Original Message ----------- > From: Stephen Liu <satimis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:06:00 +0000 > Subject: Urgent Help - Fail to boot > > > Hi folks, > > > > RH9 > > === > > > > While I was reading emails after their download from ISP mail server > > the box rebooted automatically and failed to boot finally. > > Thereafter I could not boot the box again, it would boot > > automatically after login to repair. I booted the box with rescue > > disk and tried to repair it with 'fsck /dev/hde3' and then 'e2fsck > > /dev/hde3' (fs = ext3) but finally ended up at; > > > > Code: 0f 0b 7a 00 2a ef 25 c0 e9 1b fd ff ff 0f 0b 09 00 2a ef 25 > > Segmentation fault. > > > > Further 'e2fsck /dev/hde3' the result was the same. I could not > > proceed further. Kindly help. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
