<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid374dea2a0510110945w3253224di3069db7007a8c9dd@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div>On 10/11/05, Matt Patterson <<a href="mailto:matt@v8zman.com">matt@v8zman.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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?</blockquote> <div> 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@none: Is there anyway to salvage this or am I just doomed? </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>