Micha Feigin <kamikaza_mic@yahoo.com> [2002-11-16 13:48:31 -0800]: > I tried intalling autofs to automount cdroms. > I set as the mount point / and the key as cdrom. Hopefully it just mounted the autofs filesystem on top of / and did not actually delete it. Hopefully. When filesystems are mounted on top of directories the contents of the directory are covered by the mounted filesystem. They are not deleted in that case, just covered. When the filesystem is unmounted the contents previously there are still there. Let's hope that applies to your case too. Your kernel looks to be booting and if you had really destroyed / this would probably not be possible so it looks good from here. > I tried rebooting into the same kernel and also into an older kernel, > the kernel started up, and a bit after the line: Changing kernels won't help as every kernel will eventually get to the point where it starts up autofs as it has been instructed to do and will start autofs and will overlay / with your autofs filesystem. This is not a kernel issue and therefore trying different kernels won't help. > I was running woody and a single reiserfs partition using a custom > 2.4.18 kernel. > Any idea if there is a way to save the data on the disk? Do you have a CD that you can boot from? If so you can boot the CD in rescue mode and then mount up your filesystem manually. Then the goal would be to turn off autofs. I think editing /etc/auto.master and commenting out all of the entries would be sufficient. Alternatively you can boot in single user mode. If you are using lilo then at the LILO prompt, you may have to catch it as it boots, type in 'linux init=/bin/sh' and it will boot to a shell where you have control. I have also heard that they they have implemented 'single' as an option, as in 'linux single' but I have not tried that. Because you are using Reiserfs you will need to make sure you have a kernel at boot time that knows about that filesystem type. Since it is not the old standard ext2 you may have to work a little to make sure your kernel can mount your filesystem. Good Luck Bob
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