Boot Problems

[Matthew S-H]

is there any other way to go about solving this problem?
ie: without having to do a fresh install and lose a lot of settings?

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~Matt


On Apr 12, 2005, at 7:45 PM, albi at scii.nl wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:02:28 -0400
> Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> There were the original instructions given to me:
>>> B) dd is your friend, it is the only tool that keep the bits intact.
>>>      dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hd/file
>>>      Replace /dev/hda1 with your partition and /mnt/hd with the
>>>      place your mounted the partiton that has the extra place and
>>>      file with the name of the file. And if you want to downgrade to
>>>      warty back then dd if=/mnt/hd/file of=/dev/hda1 .
>>
>> The only problem is that when I restore it, it gives me those errors.
>>  And I already tried using a "recovery mode" boot from grub.  It
>>  didn't
>> work (unless I'm doing something wrong).
>> Any other ideas?
>
> hi matt, please send this to the list also, as more people know more,
> get more answers, etc :)
>
> what i suggested to you was actually with the idea of restoring some
> data, which would go like :
>
> 1) mount your dd-image
> mount /root/your_old_dd_image /mnt -o loop
>
> 2) go take a look inside
> cd /mnt
>
> 3) copy from there what you need
>
> after recovering your data (perhaps burn it onto cd ?) do a fresh new
> install, preferably from a new hoary-cd, at least, that's what i would
> do (because when rc-files in /etc/ are missing things look a bit messy
> imho
>
> GL!
>
> ciao,
> albi