[ILUG] Urgent Partition table help needed

[Darragh Bailey]

Quoting keith davey <mush_keithd at yahoo.co.uk>:

>
> >
> > http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html
> Thanks for this Darragh.
>
> I ran testdisk and it found pretty much everything.
>
> So I reinstalled grub and I can boot again, but the
> boot fails.
>
> It fails at the point just after I see:
>
> Starting udev:
>                      [OK]
> Initializing hardware... storage network audio done
>  [OK]
>
> After that I see noting? Anyone know what should come
> next so I have a clue what its stuck on?


If I remember correctly you mentioned that you were running Fedora Core 3, in
which case I'm guessing that in your boot options to the kernel you have
"quiet rhgb"

edit the boot line in grub and remove those options. There's a good chance that
Fedora is suppressing whatever error messages are appearing during boot. So what
happens is that while loads of error messages are being pumped out and the
system loops trying to deal with a problem it looks like it is just hanging to
the user.

If you can get the error messages from the start up, someone here might have a
stab at the problem.

--
Darragh

"Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"