Can't boot notebook at all anymore

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 10:19:20 UTC 2017


On 25 June 2017 at 11:12, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2017, at 10:55, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
>
> You still think it is only a Linux software problem.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> since booting an Ubuntu live media and running
>
> $ sudo -i
>
> # apt update
>
> # apt full-upgrade
>
> # apt install smartmontools
>
> # for drive in $(smartctl --scan|cut -d- -f1); do smartctl -HA $drive; done
>
> isn't time-robbing, it doesn't harm to do this before doing anything else.

Why not just run the Disks utility which gives you the smart data in the GUI?

Colin




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