Hi, all, am in the process of setting up a new system. Luckily, I have all the critical things backed up. This evening I was planning on copying over all the non-critical but don't really want to lose stuff.
Ran into a problem I can't fix. Here's what happened: 1. oldSATA (had Ubuntu 7.10 on it) plugged into external USB hard drive cage 2. accessed it from new Ubuntu 8.10 computer 3. began copying files from oldSATA/home/tmk/ to newSATA/home/tmk 4. copied one file, no problems, so set it to copy over my virtual box files 5. copy failed with I/O error 6. unmounted external oldSATA 7. shut down new computer; plugged in oldSATA as /dev/sdb 8. booted up new computer; could access /dev/sdb 9. saw expected file directories; navigated to /home/ 10. at this point, every time I tried to enter /home/tmk/ it displayed the contents of /home/ instead. checking from terminal, I/O error at that point. 11. shut down new computer; removed oldSATA; put it back into old computer; tried to boot up in recovery mode. 12. got this error: Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules; devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/7df13ee4-d683-414a-adbe-c77fc8cb94f2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! 13. rebooted; at the grub boot menu, 'e' to edit, then changed the "root=[device]" parameter from UUID to /dev/sda1; booted, and it actually seemed to go well for a little while. 14. then it dropped into a terminal, it found inconsistencies and said fsck needed to be run manually, but it never gave shell prompt to run it. finally shut it down and rebooted ... 15. now, can continually press 'e' at boot time, only see grub stage 1.5, then grub error 2 ... can't try to fix filesystem that way 16. tried booting up live CD ... does not see /dev/sda at all, so can't use grub-install executable Does anyone have any suggestions? Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
