There is a great help file on Kent Robotti's Recovery Is Possible floppy (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/). It tells how to do various things that might need to be done to rescue your system. This file is really a big help when you are looking for how to do something and all you have to look at just then is this little floppy.

• How to mount filesystems and make repairs. There is a list of the filesystems supported. There are samples of how to mount and umount. He includes mounting an image using loop.
• Using fdisk to determine the partitions on the system
• Formating a floppy and making a filesystem on it. Making filesystmes in general, including FAT16 or FAT32.
• Convert between ext2 and ext3 filesystems.
• Check and repair ext2 or ext3 filesystems.
• How to fix a corrupt superblock on a partition.
• Show kernel boot messages.
• Unpack various compressed formats.
• Tar a directory with or without gzip.
• A list of Common Linux Commands and what they do. Instructions on how to see the help for these commands.
• How to backup a partition
• Use of ntfresize to resize a Windows NTFS partition.
• How to switch consoles, reboot, halt, poweroff.
• How to reinstall GRUB or LILO.
• How to remove GRUB/LILO.
• Back up current MBR
• Using chroot