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any one got any idea what's gong on here? My Fedora box isn't booting. Getting this error:

dracut-initqueue[195]: Warning: Could not boot.
dracut-initqueue[195]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-uuid/[...] does not exist

The disk uuid it's looking for doesn't exist.

can you get into a recovery console and edit /etc/fstab - comment out the line with that uuid in it

Is the drive visible in your BIOS/EFI setup utility, and can you see it if you boot from a LiveCD?

I'm trying to find a live cd right now (I have a terrible habit of not labeling DVDs and I have one blank DVD left which I'm saving in case I need to burn a new installation). HDD is detected in bios.

LiveUSB/SD? (Depending on BIOS capabilities)

I found some blank CDs. Grabbing Knoppix.

Still can't get in. Assuming my HDD is fucked, what's the best bet for a replacement on a budget? (laptop).

Can you see the HDD from the BIOS?

(Press or when you boot up)

Yes, I can.

This all started last night while watching some TV shows on VLC - they started sputtering and acting funny. Rebooted, it wouldn't boot. Went to best hoping it would mend itself. It hasn't. And now it's looking like I've lost a day of work. Hopefully that's all.

How about from knoppix, run this from the command line:

[code]fdisk -l[/code]

I haven't been able to boot into a rescue disk yet. The MacBook I'm using is not agreeing with any of the blank CDs/DVDs I have. Waiting to borrow a thumb drive from TS.

Argh, Knoppix grub is giving an error but it goes by too quickly to read and sends me to the Fedora grub menu.

May just install arch and see what happens.

May just install arch and see what happens.

4 hours customizing config files, 1 month of peaceful operation then a breaking update that you have to manually recover from.

#exarchuser

Yeah... But I miss minimal installs since leaving gentoo.

So I got a boot CD going.

lshw shows the drive (/dev/sda).

fdisk sees nothing.

I can mount the boot partition (not surprising) and the home partition. sda4 drops errors: EXT3 and 4 fs: unable to read superblock; FAT: invalid media value; can't find SQUASHFS superblock. sda5 also errors out: can't find ext4 fs; bogus number of reserved sectors (FAT); and the SQUASHFS error again. Both say I need to specify filesystem, but I'm fairly sure they're ext3 or 4, which it tries...

Thoughts?

I'm an idiot. I wasn't sudoing fdisk -l. It's there.

1. Run filesystem check on all partitions (e2fsck /dev/sda{1,2,3,4,5} )
   
2. Check hard drive S.M.A.R.T data (smartctl -a /dev/sda )
   
3. Kick off S.M.A.R.T test (smartctl --test=short /dev/sda )
   
4. Check hard drive S.M.A.R.T data (smartctl -a /dev/sda )
   
   

If the data is precious "dd" each partition onto another drive before doing this.

fsck'd the partition. New error on reboot: dracut-initqueue[186]: Warning: /sysroot has no profer rootfs layout, ignoring and removing offending mount hook" and "Can't mount root filesystem".

Is this progress?

Double post. Will try that. thanks!

don't have smartctl installed on this live cd. god this is frustrating.

This is a swiss-army-knife LiveCD I normally use :
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

Also, smartctl will only tell you if you physical drive has failed/about to fail.

To try and get things going again running e2fsck should be enough if you only had filesystem corruption and your hard drive is OK.

Fuck it. Reinstalling Fedora, hoping the /home partition will be fine. Assuming the HDD is okay, I'm mostly annoyed about having to get Wine running Office again.