[PLUG] PGE killed my desktop

[William A Morita]

John,

I would suggest running grub (from Knoppix).
Read up on how to select the partition to boot from, then have it reinstall
the grub boot loader.
You do have backups for this stuff... Yes????

Good luck,

- Bill 
wamorita at hevanet.com 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of John Jason Jordan
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:24 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: [PLUG] PGE killed my desktop

Well, maybe. 

It has run Ubuntu just fine for a long time, updated to Hardy when it came
out. During the thunderstorm a week or so ago there was a sudden power
outage for a couple seconds, sufficient to kill the computer. I did not
reboot because I wasn't using it anyway. 

So this evening I decided to boot it up. All I can get is the splash screen
that says ASUS M2NPV-VM. It does not proceed to the Grub boot menu. It does
not give me an error message. It just hangs on the ASUS splash screen.

There are two 320 GB hard drives in a software mirror with mdadm.
However, the hard drive light on the case does not come on.

A Knoppix live CD boots just fine. During the boot process Knoppix says:

Scanning for hard disk partitions and creating /etc/fstab ... Done

After booting it sees sda1 through 4 and sdb1 through 4 (corresponding to
the four RAID partitions), but those are the partitions - the filesystem is
actually on mda2, which does not appear. 

Any suggestions for how I can repair it?

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