On 1 Dec 2009 at 23:19, Kris Douglas wrote: > > Hello everyone, I'm struggling with an installation of Ubuntu Karmic > on my netbook. > > After an update, I switched my machine off and left it till the > morning, when I went to boot it up, it sat on "loading grub.." for a > while, and then proceeded to display "error: biosdisk read error" and > then return me to a grub rescue> CLI. > > "Ok" I thought, and I went to try some of the recovery commands, which > didn't actually work, as in, "not found", other than SET and LS. This > is screwing me over quite a bit, because disasembling the machine in > order to get the drive out it a pain, and I need it for work on a > daily basis, ideally I would like to get my files off there. > To get files of...
Perhaps a couple of USB sticks - one with a version of Ubuntu to boot off (needs to be a recent version if you are using a ext4 file system on your hard drive) and another to copy the files on to. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
