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hi. . . im a idi** i was trying to retrieve my MBR (slackware being the main) when it was over writed by Vector5.8's MBR.. sad to say when i inserted the slack cd.. and tried mounting the partitions of my slack (since i have separate parititons for /, /boot, /tmp, /home, /usr, /var etc.. ) i accidentaly RM the mounted partition of /boot :

eg.

>/mnt mount /dev/hdc6 (boot partition) /mnt/testboot

>/ rm testboot

> cannot rm : resource or drive is busy...

>/ umount /dev/hdc6 /mnt/testboot

but when i tried mounting it again.. its gone


i cannot anymore boot my slack

I'm not quite sure if I understand correctly. Before you went ahead ans started removing anything, was /dev/hdc6 mounted as /boot, or did you unmount /dev/hdc6 prior to remounting as /mnt/testboot? If /boot is gone, had you create a LILO boot disk to gain access to Slackware, or used the first Slackware CD or DVD? If /boot is gone, then you may be able to recreate it by creating the directory and then copying over your kernel image.

Was /usr also on /dev/hdc6? How was this affected in the process?

ok.. /boot is mounted on /dev/hdc6 and /dev/hdc10 is /usr so whenever i mounted this 2 partitions on my created dir, there are no more contents bcause everytime i make "ls" command no files are being displayed. . .

hi just wanted to ask. .i was given this link

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Ext2fs-Undeletion.html#toc12

regarding recovering (my /boot) which is an ext2 type of fs...

any one who has done this?

BTW its my first time to encounter having rm my /boot when i mounted it in a directory