[ubuntu-us-nc] Grub2 Difficulties

[Dick Smith]

I should have said x86, I guess.  It's not that old...but getting there.
And I've had others tell me to beware of the HD.

Dick

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:54 PM, markthecarp <markthecarp at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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