Complete system failure
 

I'm completely clueless what happend. I did a reboot since I had to do some work in win. Finished that and wanted to reboot mandrake (always works)
Only thing I get is:

Loading........linux-enterprise
Bios Data Check succesful
Uncompressing linux....oke
Booting kernel

and there it stops.

None of the other boot options get any further. I did make a boot floppy but before I installed the Nvidia drivers. So using that does boot but gives me no X. Is there a way to save this or am I lost?

I can't figure out what caused this. I did have some standerd updates from Mandrake.

Any clues, help?

Regards

Oh, I really need the stuff in my home dir. So if there is an easy way to burn that and then do a reinstall: fine
but how would I do that? Damn after months I tought I had it all working

Since you dual boot, boot from a Live CD (Knoppix or Slackware) If your Win partition is fat 32 you should be able to then copy your home dir to your win partition.

If it's NTFS, you will have to burn it to cd (if you have 2 cd drives) or floppy or email it to yourself.

May be explore2extfs (Or some such tool) can help you. This tool installs on your Windows. From this you can see your Linux partition files. Copy them to Windows and Burn CD (to be extra cautious).....Hope this helps..

abirla

oke, I'll try that, it's ntfs so it has to be burn. I'll go for the Knoppix and see if it works. Tell you this weekend have to go to work in 5 hours and I didn't had more then 4 hours of sleep the last couple of days :( Will get it fixed though. Was thinking about moving to slack (pre-ordered the new version) now I'm sure to move......
thanx for the help guys.

(still like mandrake and will install a dual with it when 9.2 comes out in a couple of weeks. Just hate that I might have lost all my work. My boss is gonna kill me if I can't get certain documents back this weekend, ......)

@abirla: was typing at the same time! Option to try aswell. Thanx
If this works I'll still be hating myself for not understanding WHY all this crap happend. But well, rescue is first priority ;)

regards

You most certainly will get your docs back.
Here is the link to download "explore2fs" tool (Google just told me): http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/lin...s.htm#Download

Enjoy...

abirla