Topic: Cant boot

[hellstern]

I have a very big problem. My SME 6.0 box suddenly stop working.!!?  
I made a reboot, on the screen it said something about “Kernel Panic” and stopped. I dit a reboot more and now it says “No system disk” !!!
Is there any way I can get into the box and get some of the data out. I have backup of some of the files but not all of the files. I’ am in the progress of setting up a new box on another pc.

/Tue

[duncan]

Grab a copy of sysresccd and hope your HD isnt cactus.

[hellstern]

Thanks
I have started the download and I will get back ween it is ready.
/Tue

[hellstern]

Hi
I have now downloaded "sysresccd" and rebooted the pc with this CD.
How do I get in contact with my disk? I have tried using fdisk to get some information:

fdisk –l /dev/had   gives this information/error:

hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC}
..
(Repeat itself)
..
I/O error, dev 03:00 (hda), sector 0

What do I do from here?
All help is very welcome

/Tue

[hellstern]

Hi agin,
A litel more info:

fdisk –l /dev/had  gives:

disk /dev/had: 8454 MB, 8454412800 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectorss/track, 16381 cylinders
Unit = culinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot   Start   End   Blocks   Id   System
/dev/hda1   16645   33289   8388736   0   Empty
Partition 1 does nor end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2   1   1   0   0   Empty
Partition 2 does nor end on cylinder boundary.

I dont know how to get on with this

/Tue

[MSmith]

If you'd like any data recovered from that drive, anyhow.  Sounds as though it's too corrupted to be readable without special tools; perhaps Ontrack or a similar service if the data is REALLY REALLY important (*cough* backups *cough*).