This is/was on my other PC. System froze while viewing secure e-mail. Seems that Root partition has been erased. Most peculiar is that Setup shows 80 Gb drive to be 81.9 Gb. ??? Anyone met this one?
It was suggested to me that I mount drive as a slave on this (11.1) and perhaps recover data. >:(
I doubt the ‘root partition was erased’ - more likely you have a case of filesystem corruption - if indeed it was 10.1, it would still use Reiser and thus there’s still some hope of fixing it with a rescue media and / or other harddrive.
Before you start poking it with forks (and possibly making the data unrecoverable), could you paste the results of fdisk -l so we could see the partition layout.