[SOLVED] attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-07 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 May 2017 18:12:03 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/05/2017 à 17:19, Joe a écrit : > >> > >> However, the ls command I suggested may still be useful to check > >> GRUB's idea of the sizes. > > > > ls (hd0) > > (hd0): Filesystem is unknown. > > > > ls (hd0,1) > > (hd0,1): Filesystem

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 May 2017 20:41:28 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/05/2017 à 20:06, Joe a écrit : > > > > Thanks, I'll have a go at that later. I'm currently bogged down in a > > completely unrelated grub issue on a different (wheezy) machine: I > > have an ext4 filesystem which passes fsck fine, t

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/05/2017 à 20:06, Joe a écrit : Thanks, I'll have a go at that later. I'm currently bogged down in a completely unrelated grub issue on a different (wheezy) machine: I have an ext4 filesystem which passes fsck fine, to which I can write, but which grub2 cannot see. The same grub rescue> pr

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 May 2017 18:12:03 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/05/2017 à 17:19, Joe a écrit : > >> > >> However, the ls command I suggested may still be useful to check > >> GRUB's idea of the sizes. > > > > ls (hd0) > > (hd0): Filesystem is unknown. > > > > ls (hd0,1) > > (hd0,1): Filesystem

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/05/2017 à 17:19, Joe a écrit : However, the ls command I suggested may still be useful to check GRUB's idea of the sizes. ls (hd0) (hd0): Filesystem is unknown. ls (hd0,1) (hd0,1): Filesystem is ext2. (after several seconds' pause) I'm only getting the grub rescue> prompt, not the grub

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 May 2017 16:07:25 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/05/2017 à 10:35, Joe a écrit : > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> > >> You can check the sizes of the disk and the partition as viewed by > >> GRUB with the following commands : > >> > >> ls (hd0) > >> ls (hd0,1) > > > > The netbo

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/05/2017 à 10:35, Joe a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: You can check the sizes of the disk and the partition as viewed by GRUB with the following commands : ls (hd0) ls (hd0,1) The netbook is about seven years old, but the laptop is a two-year-old HP running Windows 8. Its hard drive i

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 6 May 2017 09:49:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 05/05/2017 à 23:39, Joe a écrit : > > > > lo and behold, I'm dropped to a grub rescue> prompt after the > > message in the subject line... > > > > I can list the (hd0,1)/boot/ directory, but insmod normal gives the > > illegal access m

Re: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/05/2017 à 23:39, Joe a écrit : lo and behold, I'm dropped to a grub rescue> prompt after the message in the subject line... I can list the (hd0,1)/boot/ directory, but insmod normal gives the illegal access message again. The Net mostly reckons this is due to using too large a drive on a

attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

2017-05-05 Thread Joe
I've just done the first upgrades for months on a netbook and a USB hard drive, both containing sid installations. Yes, I know that's risky, but the longer you leave it, the riskier it gets... The netbook was fine. The hard drive installation completed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade while b