From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from nsfone.fone.net ([206.168.68.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FSKSd-00022U-00 for ; Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:55:11 -0400 Received: from mail2.fone.net (mail2.fone.net [206.168.68.165]) by nsfone.fone.net (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k38Kr5Qm027183 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:53:05 -0600 (MDT) Received: from grandmasfury (ftcw30.ftc.fone.net [207.174.192.34]) by mail2.fone.net (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with SMTP id k38KrT3C027202 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:53:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <000901c65b4e$a82854f0$6501a8c0@grandmasfury> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <005001c65b26$e0574b60$6501a8c0@grandmasfury> <2006-04-08T22-16-45@devnull.michael-prokop.at> Subject: Re: debian rescue? Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 14:54:35 -0600 Organization: Dataplus MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-15"; reply-type=original X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.3.0.1, Antispam-Data: 2006.04.08.125105 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by nsfone.fone.net id k38Kr5Qm027183 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tyler Littlefield , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2006 20:55:11 -0000 not /... but when... well, here is what is going on, I just installed=20 another hd, and got rid of the other one. Maybe I got rid of the wrong hd. lol ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Michael Prokop" To: Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: Re: debian rescue? * Tyler Littlefield wrote: > Hay, is there a way to rescue debian? > for some reason I think someone deleted the bootstrap_settings > when I did rm * in root. anyway, I don't know how to rescue it, > because when I try to start debian, it says "no operating system > found." You mean the global root-directory "/"? Ouch. It depends on your filesystem. With ext2 you have good chances to be able to restore files using e2undel. But with a journal file system (ext3, xfs,...) it's very hard to restore files. :-/ Tip for the future: Use zsh. :) There you will be warned before blowing all your data with an (probably) unwanted '*'. ;) HTH && regards, -mika- --=20 ,'"`. http://www.michael-prokop.at/ ( grml.org -=BB Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins `._,' http://www.grml.org/ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup=20