[LUAU] Linux HD Recovery

[Robert Green]

--- "John S. Johnson" <jsj at amagata.com> wrote:

> > If the HD is intact, you can probably move it to the primary IDE
> > interface and boot straight off of it.
> 
> Thanks Vince!
> HD is intact, but the motherboard is kaput. It's an old Athlon and
> the system I am attaching it to via external USB drive is a recent
> Dell. I don't think it would be bootable, since the OS is so
> different(even if I put the drive inside).
> Also, since the system went down hard, I am sure there are going to
> be inconsistencies with the drive. Although I don't have drive in
> front of me, I believe I remember having problems stemming from
> inconsistencies when I ran vgscan and vgchange −a y. How can I
> clean up the inconsistencies? Thanks!
>  
> --John

I've had good luck in similar situations by connecting the drive as the
primary drive and then booting with a Linux rescue or live CD -- often
times, the drive will be mounted automagically. With any luck, you can
then copy the needed data and/or run fsck in order to error check the partitions....


 
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