[sheflug] Power cut problem

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

I had a power cut the other day. A test server that I think was on at
the time stopped booting when the power came back on. I could mount both
hard drives if I booted from Knoppix and the file systems seemed
undamaged. I got things sorted out by running grub-install and it now
seems to be fine (after a few minutes playing with it). I think what
happened was that the master boot record was damaged, but can anyone
explain if the damage is likely to have gone further and if not, why
not? Is the MBR special in this respect?

The machine is 2Ghz intel processor with 1Gb Ram, 2 IDE hdds (40Gb hda
mounted at / and 80Gb mounted at /home) with FC4 running various
services (Apache, mysql, ssh, ftp etc) but no GUI.

I've now got a surge protector.

Thanks

David Willington


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