[gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

I apologize that this question is somewhat off topic, perhaps.  I have
found this to be a very helpful list, and in desperation I thought to
turn here.

After installing the Sabayon mini 3.2 x86 install on my laptop, the
boot failed.  Grub gave an error (Error number 15, If I recall
correctly) and did nothing.  The partition record seems to have been
mangled.  Each time I attempt another measure (booting rescue CDs, and
now Ubuntu, to try to repair the system (hopefully to recover the
several partitions that are my gentoo install), matters get worse, and
now from Ubuntu, gparted is unable to write to disk to install a
disklabel (as you can see, I have given up trying to recover by now,
and just want to be able to use the disk drive).

Sfdisk, parted, gparted, cfdisk all show no partitions, and only
gparted is able to really start at all.

I had noticed some problems trying to install to partition number one,
a day earlier, so I installed to another partition.

I think it's too late to recover the mbr.  For now, gparted on ubuntu
can not write the "disklabel" to disk.

Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help?  It
could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and
boot record.  Gpart was unable to determine the sector size.

I am sorry for the off topic post.

Alan Davis

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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan  lngndvs@gmail.com     1-670-256-2043

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