CANT BOOT!!!

[Michael J. Lynch]

Charles Malespin wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/11/05, *Matt Patterson* <matt at v8zman.com <mailto:matt at v8zman.com>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     It sounds like you have a disk that has failed, but based on your recent
>     upgrade I would be very suspicious of that too. Are you able to stick
>     the drive in an external enclosure or another computer to see if it can
>     be read elsewhere?
> 
> 
> I cant take the drive out at all.  I tried messing with it more, and 
> upon another hard reboot it allowed me to get into windows.  Unfort. 
> Windows is screwed cause I hadnt been there in a while doing security 
> upgrades, so now IE wont work and I cant access the internet.  So that 
> side is worthless.  I can also boot into rescue mode, but it keeps saying
> Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
> current sda : sense key Medium error
> Additional sense: Address mark not found for data field
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 289905801
> (among a long list of other things) 
> root at none: 
> 
> 
> Is there anyway to salvage this or am I just doomed?
> 

Looks like your doomed.  This is mostly likely a drive or controller
failure.  If you can, try a different SCSI controller.

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Michael J. Lynch

What if the hokey pokey IS what it's all about -- author unknown