10.2 boot problem

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A computer at the school, which ran 10.2 and was hosting Openbiblio library catalog, was moved by someone when it was still powered up. Now it will not boot. I thought that it might be hardware failure, such as the internal fan or motherboard. I took the HD out and put it in another cpu to see what happened. The boot screen starts, but gets hung up. It says:

waiting for device /dev/sda6 to appear: …not found
–exiting to /bin/sh
sh: no job control in this shell

The sql database had quite a few books entered into it from the Openbiblio feature. I’d hate to loose it. Any ideas about the problem? Thanks.

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A few things:

A CPU is not the computer tower/chassis/case. The CPU is a part internal to the computer.

Secondly

You may need to boot off the recovery CD/DVD and then run fdisk or some other utility to ensure that the disk itself is good (To see if it can read the partitions). Moving a machine will more than likely damage the moving parts rather than the non moving parts.

Your motherboard does not move (except for fans) so the likely problem is the hard drive.

This is also an example of why adequate backups are necessary.