Re: (re-)boot woes

From: Martin Wheeler (mwheeler_at_startext.co.uk)
Date: 08/08/05

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To: Kevin Mark <kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com>

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    On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Kevin Mark wrote:

    > I noticed a program called 'recoverjpeg'. If you have jpeg this may be a
    > savior (although I have not used this program).

    Thanks for the pointer. Most of the files are, in fact, jpegs; although
    there's a number of pngs and a few gifs in there too.
    I'll go grab me a copy -- sounds like a useful tool to have for the _next_
    time I screw up like this (!) -- but as I've said in a reply to Bob, I've
    already managed to get (almost) all images back.

    > Have you tried Knoppix or such

    Yes; that's what I'm using (also Ubuntu); and have now downloaded HELIX
    and PenguinSleuth as well (qv).

    > (is that what you meant by non-invasive cd)?

    Knoppix is invasive -- i.e. if it finds a swap partition when probing the
    hard drive, it will mount it and use it; for pukka forensic work, this
    constitues interfering with the disk, and invalidates any conclusions
    drawn about the contents of the disk.

    HELIX and PenguinSleuth are both specially adapted versions of Knoppix
    which don't do this; hence more suited for forensic work. (PenguinSleuth
    also has Autopsy, and an improved version of The Coroner's Toolkit built
    in; plus a few other disk investigation/recovery tools.)
    [But see my comments elswhere about the use of the cp command. Bizarre.
    I don't really know enough about the guts of system commands to figure out
    what's happening -- in my case, it provoked a beneficial auto-repair (of
    sorts); in other cases though it could be exactly the wrong thing to do.

    > Does the partitions
    > contain an unusual FS type

    ext3 only

    > There are also other boot manager that are reported to 'find' the
    > requied info to boot with.

    Yeah; if I'd used grub from the start, maybe I wouldn't have had this
    problem (i.e. not finding initrd image). Unfortunately, I didn't.

    Anyone know of any others I might be able to use in this situation?

    > Any way, good luck.

    Thanks.
    Still digging. 

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