[ubuntu-us-nc] Grub2 Difficulties

[markthecarp]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Dick Smith <dsmithnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, guys.  I'm going to save these messages!  Maybe it'll refresh my
> mind the next time.  Seriously though, I think it's time to upgrade so I'll
> get on that first.
>
> And, the burn I have is from a live cd that was shipped with Ubuntu User
> magazine last year sometime.
>
> Dick
>

Holy Cow! Did you say 386?! It still works!

If you mean an old 386 cpu...well a modern kernel...I don't know.

If you meant x86 as in a 32 bit system of recent vintage I'd say
you're looking at a bad hard drive. If scrub the drive and start over
is an option take it. If that fails well it's likely the hd.

My nickel, bad hard drive.

-mark

> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Daniel Caleb <nix at tek12.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:34 -0500, Bill Farrow wrote:
>>
>> > MESSAGES AFTER Mount:
>> > Feb  3 18:36:32 ubuntu kernel: [  500.285653] SQUASHFS error:
>> > squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x322adfa3
>>
>> Perhaps your /boot/initrd.img-2.6.xx file was corrupt, or the
>> filesystem/disk that it resides on was bad.
>>
>> I noticed those errors too, but the squashfs filesystem is the livecd
>> environment - if anything I'd say you have a bad burn...  The next time you
>> download the ISO, make sure you do a MD5 checksum against it to verify.
>>
>> After reading all the posts though, I can safely say I have no idea what
>> was going on either... I had some issues with a desktop recently, that had
>> the Master/Slave cable switched... So, the MBR was on the slave and the BIOS
>> would always recognize the master as sda -- and grub would roll over and
>> silently die. That's the only experience I know that resembles the issue you
>> described. Hopefully that helps...
>>
>> Daniel
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