FC3 gone

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Date: 07/07/05

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    I've been lurking on this list for a couple of months trying to learn
    about Linux. I now have a problem which I believe is unrecoverable, but
    I would like to know if I did something to cause it. I had a computer
    running FC3 and a week ago Saturday I shut down the computer while I
    went on vacation for a week. When I got home I booted the computer and
    used it for several hours. I then ran up2date and it seemed to be
    successful. I decided to reboot and when I attempted to log out, the
    computer appeared to lock up. I pushed the reset button and when the
    computer attempted to reboot, I got a grub prompt. I used the rescue cd
    to run linux rescue and it said that there were know linux partitions on
    the drive. I ran sfdisk on /dev/hda (the drive on which FC3 was
    installed) and got the following:

    Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
    BLKRRPART: Permission denied
    OK

    Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
    Old situation:
    Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
      for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 79656/16/63).
    For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
    Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

       Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
    /dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
    /dev/hda2 13 4997 4985 40042012+ 8e Linux LVM
    /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
    /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

    Any ideas would be appreciated? Just for informational purposes, before
    I installed FC3 I was running WinXP and it crashed also. That's why I
    installed FC3. Is it possible the hard drive is bad?

    Craig Herman 

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