So what to do? I found references on the web in responses to the 'grub rescue>' prompt that said 'set' and 'ls' were useful, so: ls: (hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0) set: cmdpath=(hd0) prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub root=hd0,msdos1
Does this help at all? -Denis On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:19 AM, benjamin barber <starwor...@gmail.com> wrote: > it sounds more like intrusion than hardware failure. > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > The precursor may or may not be related. > > > > I discovered that my wife's gmail had been accessed by an iphone on Nov, > > 1. We have no iphone, and were home alone at the time listed. So I > > changed the pass word. Then tried to open firefox. Would not load. > > Nothing would work, except the mouse pointer would move around. Had to > use > > the power button to restart. Now I get error: attempt to read or write > > outside of disk 'hd0'. Entering rescue mode. grub rescue> > > > > Yesterday the computer froze in a similar fashion when my wife was > looking > > at email in evolution. A power switch intervention was required, but it > > booted fine at that time. > > > > So the two incidents point to hardware problems or intrusion? > > > > I have googled for grub rescue recovery, but what I found was aimed at > > people with more understanding than I have. > > > > Are there suggestions that someone here can offer? > > > > thanks, > > -Denis > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
