impleri

Well, since the crash of my MythBox, I’ve been playing with recovering the hard drive.  My first choice (i.e. easiest) was to simply install a new distro and keep the original data from the /home and /var partitions.  That didn’t work so well (boot fails after GRUB finishes).  So, I’ve spent the day playing with the data.  Here’s the damage: many inconsistencies on the partitions (no bad blocks, however) and a bad partition table.  The table was fixed by running fdisk and removing some partitions.   Once that was done, I was able to run fsck (and some variations of) on the two partitions I want to keep (one is in ReiserFS 3, the other in JFS).
Then, I moved everything on my normal box onto a spare hard drive.  Then, I moved everything from the /var partition onto that spare as well.  Finally, I copied what I could from the /home partition and split it (basically) over the spare hard drive and the space I had on my normal drive.
Now, it is time to reinstall everything and start from there.  If I can get to a point where I could shell into the computer, I’ll be happy (because I could then finish setting up MythTV remotely if needed).