[ubuntu-uk] Struggling with GRUB 2 error

[Kris Douglas]

2009/12/1 Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com>:
> 2009/12/1 Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>:
>> On 1 Dec 2009 at 23:19, Kris Douglas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello everyone, I'm struggling with an installation of Ubuntu Karmic
>>> on my netbook.
>>>
>>> After an update, I switched my machine off and left it till the
>>> morning, when I went to boot it up, it sat on "loading grub.." for a
>>> while, and then proceeded to display "error: biosdisk read error" and
>>> then return me to a grub rescue> CLI.
>>>
>>> "Ok" I thought, and I went to try some of the recovery commands, which
>>> didn't actually work, as in, "not found", other than SET and LS. This
>>> is screwing me over quite a bit, because disasembling the machine in
>>> order to get the drive out it a pain, and I need it for work on a
>>> daily basis, ideally I would like to get my files off there.
>>>
>> To get files of...
>>
>> Perhaps a couple of USB sticks - one with a version of Ubuntu to boot
>> off (needs to be a recent version if you are using a ext4 file system on
>> your hard drive) and another to copy the files on to.
>
> I've just tried that, it doesn't seem to want to boot the device, im
> watching it's progress, it seems to be moving along, but very very
> slowly. Im reading some ata1 device errors too.
>
> --
> Kris Douglas
>

Right, Gnome has come online now, I've accessed the device with
gparted, and it seems to have identified the partitions in the search,
but it is sitting forever reading the stuff on /dev/sda (the device)
and other than that, it's made little visual progress.

-- 
Kris Douglas