2009/12/2 Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>: > On 1 Dec 2009 at 23:51, Kris Douglas wrote: > >> >> 2009/12/1 Kris Douglas <krisdoug...@gmail.com>: >> > 2009/12/1 Tony Pursell <a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>: >> >> 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. >> > >> > I've just tried that, it doesn't seem to want to boot the device, im >> > watching it's progress, it seems to be moving along, but very very >> > slowly. Im reading some ata1 device errors too. >> > >> > -- >> > Kris Douglas >> > >> >> Right, Gnome has come online now, I've accessed the device with >> gparted, and it seems to have identified the partitions in the search, >> but it is sitting forever reading the stuff on /dev/sda (the device) >> and other than that, it's made little visual progress. >> > > You might find some help with the original grub problem at > > http://grub.enbug.org/Manual > > Tony > > PS I'm not an expert - just trying to help with what little knowledge I > have!
I much appreciate your help, Tony :) Furthermore, I think the drive is either dead or very corrupted, loads of I/O errors, so I think it's the drive. -- Kris Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
