Re: [sheflug] Power cut problem

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 20:07 +0000, David Willington wrote:
> 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?

I would be doubtful the MBR was touched - the hard drive would have no
reason to access that part of the drive, so the chance of dodgy data
getting written would, I think, be pretty remote.

I would be thinking more along the lines of the / filesystem being in a
bad state, but you don't say whether or not the filesystem was
journalled. If a superblock had been torched, it could be that grub was
having difficulty finding the kernel to boot.

Cheers,

Alex.




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