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> I used the boot disk and then went to the rescue
> disk when it called for it. /dev/sda1 was listed as a device file in /dev,
> but wasn't in /etc/fstab so I cp'd the info over and then tried to mount
> /dev/sda1. The message I got back was
> 'mount: the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device (maybe
> 'insmod driver'?)
Sure, maybe now you don't have the proper SCSI driver loaded... Or the
copy of the device wasn't the right copy... Try a mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
, with perms 660 and root.disk as owner/group.
> If the system is beyond recovery, so be it, but it would be REALLY nice to
> get it back up!!
Put that disk in another working machine and do it :)
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
> Thank you!
> Heather
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--Alexandre Hautequest - Linux User #116289
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