CANT BOOT!!!

[Matt Patterson]

If you have a live cd you could boot into it, then mount the hard disk 
and see if the drive is ok. If the drive is good then I would say the 
upgrade damaged something (probably the module that supports your hard 
disk controller) and I dont know how to repair something like that.

One thing you might try is to google "ubuntu 
your_hard_disk_controller_chipset" to see if anyone else has had a 
similiar problem and maybe fixed it.

Matt



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?
>
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>
>     Charles Malespin wrote:
>
>     > PLEASE HELP!  I came back to my computer after having left for a
>     whle
>     > and I got a bunch of errors saying that I couldnt open or do pretty
>     > much anything cause it was read only.  I rebooted and during
>     shutdown
>     > it gave me a ton of errors saying about read only read only(they
>     were
>     > going too fast to remember specfics)  When I rebooted and got to
>     grub
>     > menu, I chose normal 2.6.10-5-686 kernel and it starts booting, till
>     > it gets to ata2: disabling port.  Then it says
>     > EXT3-fs error (device sda5) : ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read
>     inode
>     > block - innode=7209167, block=14417933
>     > * no inittab file found
>     >
>     > Enter run level:
>     >
>     > If I pick runlevel 5 or 6 it says no more processes at this run
>     level
>     > and just hangs.
>     >
>     > Then I do a hard reboot at after picking the same kernel it gives me
>     > an error saying
>     > Error 18: Selected Cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS.
>     > Press any key to continue.....
>     >
>     > And if I pick 386, or XP(running dual boot), or recovery for any it
>     > still gives me error.  So basically I cant boot into
>     anything.  Please
>     > help, i am a noob still so I dont know what to do.  I just did an
>     > upgrade today(not to breezy, just a regular upgrade that had
>     some new
>     > kernel images and two other things) running hoary stable for a few
>     > months with no major probs..  ANY HELP PLEASE!!  Thanks
>
>
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