CANT BOOT!!!

[Alex Janssen]

Charles Malespin said the following on 10/11/2005 12:45 PM:

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> On 10/11/05, *Matt Patterson* <matt at v8zman.com 
> <mailto:matt at v8zman.com>> wrote:
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>     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?
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> 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?
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>     Charles Malespin wrote:
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>     > 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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What do scandisk.exe from windows and fsck from linux say.  If you have 
your data backed up, just reinstall windows then linux.  What have you 
got to lose?  If you have bad hardware, replace it.

Good luck,
Alex

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