[luau] How to repair system?

[Thomas David Burns]

I sent this message previously, it did not get through?
Dave
> A power outage at last night zapped one of my linux boxes, now it
> say "OS not found" when I try to boot.
> 
> Ideally I'd like to get it to boot normally again without wiping out
> the data, or find a way to get some of the data off before re-
> installing the OS.
> 
> I have a linux bootable business card that supposedly has
> repair/recovery utilities on it that I am able to boot with. But I am
> completely clueless how to proceed after that. This is an area
> my "linux administration" books don't mention.
> 
> There has got to be a book or a good web page out there on this topic.
> How do I find them? When I google on "repair" and "linux" I get 
> massiveamounts of irrelevant hits.
> 
> I guess I have to try to mount the hard drive and check it out. What
> tools do I use? 
> 
> fsck? I find the man page rather obscure. The machine that died had 
> redhat 7.3 on it, I think I was lazy & had everything on one big 
> partition.
> Dave
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