[SLE] Help, hard drive problem - no Linux partitions found.

From: Richard Mixon (qwest) (rnmixon_at_qwest.net)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Would appreciate any ideas before I bite the bullet and have to
    reinstall.

    I have a box I was using to setup mythtv using SuSE Pro 9.2. Its an
    Athlon XP 1500 with a WD 200GB drive, 512MB RAM.

    I had partitioned it with a 100mb "/boot", 512MB swap and the rest as an
    LVM storage group, which I then divided up into "/", "/var", "/cache"
    and "/mythtv".

    The only unorthodox thing I did (and I say that only in hindsight) was
    use the partition editor to change my "/mythtv" partition from Reiser to
    XFS while the partition was mounted. I had read that was much larger for
    large file. When I rebooted no I got a screen fully of numbers (TTY1,
    TTY2, ....) and no root partition found.

    I used CD #1 and asked it to automatically repair the system. It says it
    cannot find any partitions with Linux installed - of course I've had it
    rescan multiple times. The partition editor still shows all partitions
    as they should be.

    What should I do next?

    Thanks in advance - Richard 

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