On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
> > "Bill" == Bill Bogstad writes:
>
> Bill> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad <
> su...@laymusic.org>
> Bill> wrote:
>
> Bill> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu
> Bill> insta
> "Bill" == Bill Bogstad writes:
Bill> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad
Bill> wrote:
Bill> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu
Bill> installed
Bill> on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
Bil
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
> on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
> clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
> directory that looks normal
Suggestion: Boot from other media (USB/CD etc) an OS that will allow you to
run SMART utilities on the drive.
I have a drive that is acting as you describe, it was 'out of reparable
sectors' or something like that. It basically means the drive is out of
places to stash good data after finding bad
Try using the SystemRescueCD.
http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage
It's my go-to when I need to fix a box that won't boot.
--
Rich P.
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> "Dan" == Dan Ritter writes:
Dan> Can you boot from a rescue USB or disc? Sounds like you need to
Dan> re-install a boot-loader (LILO or GRUB, most likely)
Yes, I can do either of those. boot-repair is supposed to reinstall
grub, and thinks it has, but not so I can boot.
I should
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 08:39:03AM -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
> on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
> clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
> directory that look
My desktop is a lenovo I bought last fall. It has only ubuntu installed
on it. There is a 500M boot partition, which seems to have been
clobbered. The / partition looks fine, and in fact includes a /boot
directory that looks normal to me.
I rebooted it a couple of days ago because of a new ker
