[Nottingham] Computer woes--knacked IDE disk recovery

[Duncan John Fyfe]

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Alex Walker wrote:

> On Thursday 05 June 2003 11:53, Paul Sladen wrote:

> Sorry, people seem to have misunderstood me - the computer won't boot with the
> disk connected.  So I can't get to the dd stage... once I'm there I stand a
> chance I know.  These errors come before the system is booted.  I will try
> some of Duncan's suggestions and see if I can get it booting with it in, then
> will try some of these other things.
>

Extra thought,  which disk is your swap partition on ?

Have fun,
Duncan

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