Hey everyone, I'm still unable to restart mysqld on my server that crashed. I'm afraid that I won't be able to dump the current contents of the database so I can reload it. I do have the contents of /var/lib/mysql which appears to be the raw mysql tables. Is it possible to copy these files, reinstall the system, put those files back, and get a working MySQL system? -Tim -- Tim Wilson Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy mailto: wilson at visi.com aim: tis270 blog: http://technosavvy.org/