I just lost my ability to boot Fatdog64 710
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I just lost my ability to boot Fatdog64 710
I cannot believe it. All I did was partition a flash drive. I then rebooted into Fatdog because I had been in Windows one time. When I rebooted, it failed to boot, so I changed the boot options to not use the savefile. So now I can at least boot into Fatdog and I have aufs, but i do NOT have devsave. Perhaps I had done something dumb and put it on devsave or could it be that the 512MB savefile that I see is the file? But normally I have very large save files. I'm very confused right now. I just don't remember on this laptop - how had I set up a month ago? I cannot remember. But it seems I've lost a lot of work - can I get it back somehow? I'm thinking, but I don't really have any strong ideas how to proceed. I guess if I can figure out how to load the .ext4 savefile perhaps I can recover most stuff. I forget how to do it - I'll have to read up on that.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Make a new install of fatdog64-710 in a new flash drive as explained here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... drive.html
Then copy the old savefile on to the new flash drive.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/fa ... drive.html
Then copy the old savefile on to the new flash drive.
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I knew there would be confusion
Hi, I was simply booting up off of the CD-ROM drive. I'm not trying to install Fatdog onto a flash drive. I always just boot off of a CD-ROM.
I didn't do ANYTHING to Fatdog. I was just running Fatdog and used GParted to partition a usb flash stick. I wasn't trying to create a boot sequence for Fatdog off of the flash stick.
I don't want to do that - I have other things to do.
Is there some way I can dynamically load/mount my fd64savefile.ext4? And please, does anyone know why simply partitioning a new flash stick would ruin my Fatdog operating system and make devsave disappear?
What, did the boot-loader get tricked into thinking I wanted to boot off of the flash drive even though there is nothing on it, and I haven't made it bootable yet? I don't know, I just wonder, since I have no idea what happened to Fatdog.
I've only used 52GB of the 450GB drive that I normally browse my files on.
I have /dev/sda3 mounted but it can't seem to find the /dev/sda2 and I therefore cannot mount it. That's the UEFI Microsoft reserverd partition. Perhaps this is part of the problem.
I didn't do ANYTHING to Fatdog. I was just running Fatdog and used GParted to partition a usb flash stick. I wasn't trying to create a boot sequence for Fatdog off of the flash stick.
I don't want to do that - I have other things to do.
Is there some way I can dynamically load/mount my fd64savefile.ext4? And please, does anyone know why simply partitioning a new flash stick would ruin my Fatdog operating system and make devsave disappear?
What, did the boot-loader get tricked into thinking I wanted to boot off of the flash drive even though there is nothing on it, and I haven't made it bootable yet? I don't know, I just wonder, since I have no idea what happened to Fatdog.
I've only used 52GB of the 450GB drive that I normally browse my files on.
I have /dev/sda3 mounted but it can't seem to find the /dev/sda2 and I therefore cannot mount it. That's the UEFI Microsoft reserverd partition. Perhaps this is part of the problem.
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Yes, I see the file there
It's there more or less. I can see it. I need to mount it, correct?
It scares me only a LITTLE that it's 512 MB as this is my laptop - perhaps I just haven't yet expanded it's size to match my desktop. Maybe this problem can be solved by remounting it? Is that what you're hinting at?
However, I am VERY worried at the loss of /dev/sda2. Bizarre.
One other comment: Anyone know why my sda3 drive appears with a little circular icon with 8 prongs on it now. It never had that before I partitioned a flash stick today - that's something new. It no longer appears as a drive, but instead as some weird-looking blue folder with a sort of steering wheel icon over it.
I wonder if that one time I booted into Windows, if the Windows operating system did something to that drive, and it messed up the one that's missing also. Damn.
It scares me only a LITTLE that it's 512 MB as this is my laptop - perhaps I just haven't yet expanded it's size to match my desktop. Maybe this problem can be solved by remounting it? Is that what you're hinting at?
However, I am VERY worried at the loss of /dev/sda2. Bizarre.
One other comment: Anyone know why my sda3 drive appears with a little circular icon with 8 prongs on it now. It never had that before I partitioned a flash stick today - that's something new. It no longer appears as a drive, but instead as some weird-looking blue folder with a sort of steering wheel icon over it.
I wonder if that one time I booted into Windows, if the Windows operating system did something to that drive, and it messed up the one that's missing also. Damn.
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I may have crunched my Fatdog savefile
I don't know, maybe copying a .iso to my hard-drive did something?
I wanted to make it fast when I go to load it so I copied it from the CD to my hard-drive? But my hard-drive has a lot of room? I don't know.
I guess I will try to use the dd command now to do this job but I can't seem to find my Ubuntu iso file.
I wanted to make it fast when I go to load it so I copied it from the CD to my hard-drive? But my hard-drive has a lot of room? I don't know.
I guess I will try to use the dd command now to do this job but I can't seem to find my Ubuntu iso file.
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I can see the savefile in Windows
And I see my fd64-devx_710.sfs file there too.
And I can see these in Fatdog also.
Perhaps I can somehow get that file loaded when I'm in fatdog.
Perhaps it isn't corrupted by that dumb 1.4 GB copy I did, although I think it's likely that it is. I would hope that something would have complained.
But sadly, I cannot see any Linux stuff right now. If the system is smart enough to reject that file, it might still be ok. It will be interesting if I could see what is in the fd64save.ext4 - ie. read it someho.w
A corrupt fd64save.ext4 would give a logical explanation why I can't boot using a savefile. God, I hope it's not corrupt, but at least it's only my laptop. I should just buy a new laptop and throw this one in the trash.
And I can see these in Fatdog also.
Perhaps I can somehow get that file loaded when I'm in fatdog.
Perhaps it isn't corrupted by that dumb 1.4 GB copy I did, although I think it's likely that it is. I would hope that something would have complained.
But sadly, I cannot see any Linux stuff right now. If the system is smart enough to reject that file, it might still be ok. It will be interesting if I could see what is in the fd64save.ext4 - ie. read it someho.w
A corrupt fd64save.ext4 would give a logical explanation why I can't boot using a savefile. God, I hope it's not corrupt, but at least it's only my laptop. I should just buy a new laptop and throw this one in the trash.
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I would guess that I overwrote the .ext4 file
This is why I have a 16GB file on my desktop - I know that this covers me for large files. I just have to start over I guess.
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It's a fairly new laptop
Oh well .....................................................
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I'm on the lookout for a tool that analyzes .ext4 files
Just for fun, I'd like to analyze that .ext4 file. Just to prove that it's really bad, or could I perhaps load it and use it, or some of it? Maybe by some freak it's ok, and I only don't see my old devsave, because it failed to load or is a little corrupt, but fixable.
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True, I can mount the file for viewing or unmount
I just copied too much stuff to devsave and under devsave - like 3 GB in all and something went wrong.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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CRISIS OVER - I'm now running off of a new savefile
At this one boot, Fatdog was looking for devices or something and it scared me but everything is normal now - I just lost whatever work I had done - but nt that big of a deal.
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There's one source of deep anger though
The first time fatdog seemed to use it, but I now realize that Fatdog has gone back to the original savefile again! God, that angers me!
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Is your partition ext4? I had problems and couldn't boot from such a partition, but it worked if the partition was ext2. Haven't tried ext3.
Well maybe you could try, but in my case I had just one partition on the whole USB stick along with FatDog on it (wasn't booting off the CD), so not exactly the same case.
Well maybe you could try, but in my case I had just one partition on the whole USB stick along with FatDog on it (wasn't booting off the CD), so not exactly the same case.