Re: Partition table gone

[Andrew Clausen]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 09:50:32AM -0800, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> I recently tried to label a partition using parted and
> recieved an error...this was a few days ago so I can't
> really remember the error message. Anyway when I
> rebooted my system it appears that my partition table
> has been deleted.

You mean you typed "mklabel"?  Yes, that's what this command
does.  Perhaps it should be called "mktable".

> I am stuck at the grub> prompt and
> am not sure what to do from here. Any sugguestion
> would be greatly apreiciated. I am a newbie with linux
> but I catch on quickly....Thanks

I would download some boot disks (eg: ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/bootdisk),
and either use gpart, or parted's rescue command.

Cheers,
Andrew