Hi Kristof,
Here are a couple of ideas that you might want to try before completely
destroying your system:
1) Try to boot to a lower runlevel, most likely single user mode, and
hopefully you can gain enough access to your system to fix with fsck.
To get to single user mode from lilo you can simply type "linux single"
without the quotes at the boot prompt. From grub, this process is a
little different. All you need to do is select the kernel you want to
boot, press "e" for edit, then add the word "single" to the end of the
boot command. After this, go back to the grub screen ("Enter") and boot
this modified kernel line ("b").
2) Boot your system using an operating system that sits entirely on a cd
or a usb device. If you can boot to this operating system and mount the
bad drives from this OS, then you quite possibly can fix most problems
of your broken disk. Personally, I prefer knoppix (www.knoppix.org) for
this kind of work.
Best of luck,
David LeBard
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Arizona State University
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 01:20, Kristof Stevens wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using AMBER 7 for about 2 months now and I was running an MD-simulation
> with the sander module, for which I acces the data on the windows partition of
> my PC (AMD athlon 64 3400), but I run the calculation in the Fedore partition
> (I run Fedora core 3 for 64 bit). When I had the power supply crash I could
> not reboot in Linux, during the booting process the computer recognizes a lot
> of damage on the hard drive.
> After an fsck (via login as root during the booting process)with repairing all
> the damaged files I still cannot boot because the computer blocks somewhere in
> the booting process at a random step (or at least that is the impression I
> get).
> Is there anyone who encountered a similar problem and maybe has a solution for
> this, exept reinstalling completely everything?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kristof Stevens
>
> University of Southern Danmark
> Chemistry Departement
> Campusvej 55
> 5230 Odense M
> Danmark
> (+45)65502525
>
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