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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

I finally succeeded in running e2fsck on that laptop HD that sort of
crashed on me not long ago (a sudden system poweroff from low battery
power while I was trying to shut down the system was the cause of the
crash).  I did this by placing the drive in another machine and booting
from the DamnSmallLinux CD, running e2fsck from there.  There were tons of
errors, which I told it to just go ahead and fix.  The final result was
that the /root dir is (and possibly some others are) missing.  Alot of
fragments were saved to /lost+found by e2fsck and I suppose I might find
some of the missing items by rooting around there.  When I try to boot the
system, I get a kernel panic and a message to the effect "init not found."  
My basic question with regard to this is: is it worth trying to rescue
this instalation, or should I just focus on saving data and reinstalling?  
There's nothing that I would say is really critical there: this was more
or less a testing system for BL.  I did put alot of work into setting it
up, though, so I don't want to simply throw in the towel on it lightly.  
Input appreciated.

Thanks, James