<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Message: 2 Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:19:57 +0100 From: Radomir Dopieralski < <a href="mailto:xubuntu@sheep.art.pl">xubuntu@sheep.art.pl</a>> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] speeding up Xubuntu 7.10 by upgrading kernel to 686? To: Xubuntu Help and User Discussions <<a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com"> xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:20071127051957.GB11352@wmid.amu.edu.pl.edu">20071127051957.GB11352@wmid.amu.edu.pl.edu</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:12:40PM -0800: > install a kernel for a 686. The documentation said to type "sudo > apt-get install linux-686" from the command line. I was logged in as > root, so I typed the above w/out "sudo". I got a bunch of errors, all > of which contained the text "Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical > block". I don't want to worry you, but these kinds of errors usually mean a hardware failure of the sda1 disk (probably a hard disk in this case). Try booting in the recovery mode and running fsck on that disk, possibly with -c option to check for bad blocks. -- Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski <<a href="http://sheep.art.pl" target="_blank"> http://sheep.art.pl</a>> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ <<a href="http://www.asciiribbon.org" target="_blank">www.asciiribbon.org</a>> - against proprietary attachments ------------------------------ </blockquote><div> Thank you for replying! I typed "fsck" into the command line and hit return, and got the following: "fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) e2fsck 1.40.2 (12-Jul-2007) /dev/sda1 is mounted. WARNING! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVER filesystem damage. Do you want to continue?" That sounded scary so I said "no". Should I say "yes" to that question? If my disk is bad, did I ruin it by changing from Windows to Linux? Can damage like that be caused by the disk running for too long? (It was on for almost a day while I was trying different install methods.) I didn't have too many problems w/ XP on it, but maybe they were there and I didn't know about it until now. If the disk is bad, how was Linux able to be installed at all? Not sure how to proceed -- thank you for your advice. </div></div>