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I have a problem with my OS Fedora 11. Just mounted additional harddisk through DISk Mounter but after doing it, It displayed a system error. (Ctrl +D to reboot, or provide a root password to repair)I am so sure that the hdd is ok. Just tried to mount it first to /mnt before proceeding.. Can i recover my old operating system without reinstalling it???
Not a lot to go on. By now you probably rebooted anyway. You can examine the disk with gparted or any disk management tool of your choice. Not having had this problem my self I guess it was a kernel panic. I am aware that under certain circumstances gparted crashes when there is something wrong with the partition table. Mounting may have caused the panic.
It is unlikely you will need to reinstall the OS.
But do you mean i have to use another computer to examine my disk with gparted? And there is no way to recover my old system?? I really dont know what's wrong with my partion table..(think)
If one adds a hd, it's always a good idea to check the bios which hd is the primary, otherwise it will fail to boot. I've fallen into this trap a couple of times.
As above. Most live distro disks have gparted. Linux Mint a good solid starting point. It contains gparted and ntfs tools. A dedicated rescue CD should give you more options.
One further thought. If your install is bricked don't flatten it straight away. There are ways you can keep your data even if you have to do a reinstall.
also are you aware that fedora 11 has been UNSUPPORTED for quite some time now ( june 2010) , 14 is current and 15 will be out soon .
there have been NO security updates in almost a year .
I really just have to use fedora 11 for our certain software. Our software is only compatible with this version of fedora. that's why i just wanted to know..
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