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From: Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:17:21 +0400
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Richard Heycock wrote:

>Hi,
>
Hello

>
>I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my
>root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked
>it. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of
>'ReiserFS V3.6 block...'
>

> and I can no longer mount it.
>When the machine tries to boot it loads the kernel (from /dev/hda6) but
>when it comes to mount the root partition it kernel panics as it cannot
>mountthe filesystem.
>
>I know at least some of the data is on the partition (`less /dev/hda5`).
>I'm guessing that grub-install has overwritten N number of bytes at the
>beginning of the partition but beyond that I'm at a complete loss of what
>to do.
>Help!
>
>Thanks
>
>rgh
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