Hi Mogens,
Looks like a hardware problem.
Yes, you are correct. This is a new FC6 box, with installation
completed about 12 hours before. It was running without problem.
Today on starting this box it failed. Finally I found the problem
coming from the cable connecting the graphic card to monitor not
securely fixed. From that time onwards it failed to boot.
I have another HD on this box running on WinXP. Before fixing the
cable problem it also failed to boot. Now the problem on WinXP gone,
leaving FC6 before un-fixed.
Try booting from the installation media in rescue mode
or from a Knoppix cd.
From there it is possible to do an "fdisk -l".
OK
Before fsck'ing I would test the hardware:
If the drive has SMART, see what
smartctl -a /dev/hda
tells you.
Run a test on the drive with:
smartctl -t long /dev/hda
and after the test has finished, see what
smartctl -a /dev/hda
gives of information.
Whether run above command on Knoppix or on rescue mode of the FC6-CD
I tried on login as root but seems "smartctl -t long /dev/hda" did not
work.
Besides pls advise how to copy the output to a file and save the latter
on floppy? If login as root can I mount floopy? TIA
Others noted with tks.
B.R.
Stephen
Furthermore this is new box. Would reinstallation of FC6 be easier?
Tks.
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