On Wednesday, 3 June 2020 18:28:33 BST Dale wrote: > tedheadster wrote: > > Yes, you do need to capture the kernel output. > > > > The usual way is to hook up a serial cable to another computer and > > pipe the output to it. You interrupt the boot (usually by hitting > > <shift> or <tab> in GRUB), and then edit the kernel command line thus: > > > > console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 > > > > If you can do that you can give us some debug output. > > > > - Matthew > > Could she boot from some other media, mount the partitions to get to > dmesg and get it from that? Or since it may not be mounting any > partitons, would that lead down the wrong path if it is outdated? > > Dale > > :-) :-)
If the /dev/sda3 partition is the correct swap partition as fdisk reports with a LiveCD, the OP can create a new swap on it and see if it can be activated: mkswap -L SWAP /dev/sda3 swapon /dev/sda3 If there are still I/O errors try reseating the SATA cable, there may be corrosion on the contacts. dmesg with the LiveCD will also reveal any other hardware issues.
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