Ok, the nst image did not work. So got fed up. <br><br>Finally made bios optimized settings, restarted the box.<br><br>This time success. Now the machine mythubuntu works and good enough too.<br><br>Its the backend server and I have mounted the other windoze drive as an auxillary drive thru the /etc/fstab.<br>
<br>Hopefull mythtv can be made to see that folder.<br><br>Thank you all for the various ideas and support through out.<br><br>-Narahari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:44 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br>
> Oops. Made a mistake in my typing.<br>
<br>
> Instead of I connected the NTFS drive by itself, it should read I<br>
> connected<br>
> the NON-NTFS drive by itself.<br>
<br>
</div>Ah... Makes a big difference.<br>
<br>
I think I had some suggestions in an earlier posting.<br>
<br>
What are the make, model, and interface of these drives?<br>
<br>
Can you burn an NST minimal CD and boot it?<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org" target="_blank">http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org</a><br>
<br>
Advantage to this toolkit is that it's designed to be complete unto<br>
itself as a run-live and be able to do forensic work and analytical work<br>
that could involve tearing into an unknown drive or hardware.<br>
<br>
Try booting it to console or server mode.<br>
<br>
If you can't boot it I would love to know how far you got.<br>
<br>
If you can (there will be no graphical interface on the minimal) then<br>
you can log in and run some tests and post the results.<br>
<br>
cat /proc/cpuinfo<br>
cat /proc/partitions<br>
sfdisk -l /dev/sda<br>
sfdisk -R /dev/sda (this forces a partition table reread)<br>
cat /proc/partitions (it's possible that this might be different now)<br>
smartctl -i /dev/sda<br>
hdparm /dev/sda<br>
sdparm /dev/sda<br>
<br>
You can save those off to a USB drive so you're not retyping everything.<br>
<br>
This won't solve it but it could go a long way toward figuring out what<br>
it is.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">><br>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha<br>
> <<a href="mailto:savithari@gmail.com">savithari@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Friends:<br>
> ><br>
> > The title of this was<br>
> > Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone<br>
> endlessly<br>
> > Its time to provide update on where I am on the<br>
> Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Ubuntu<br>
> > Server/MythUbuntu/MythDora installs on the troubled machine of 2 HD<br>
> setup.<br>
> ><br>
> > I removed both drives. Then I connected the NTFS drive just by<br>
> itself.<br>
> > Installed MythUbuntu and all went fine (had some cd issues but<br>
> finally burnt<br>
> > one at 1X speed and got it to work).<br>
> ><br>
> > After install, restarted machine and went back to the infamous<br>
> UNABLE TO<br>
> > SYNC VFS UKNOWN BLOCK error.<br>
> ><br>
> > I then downloaded Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test cd and ran a complete<br>
> test<br>
> > of the drive to check for any defects. NO DEFECTS FOUND. So drive<br>
> seems to<br>
> > be fine.<br>
> ><br>
> > One more thing left, I will wipe the drive clean tonight and try it<br>
> again.<br>
> > I will also send the screen shot so folks can take a look at that as<br>
> well.<br>
> ><br>
> > I may try DEBIAN also, but first I will wipe the drive clean.<br>
> ><br>
> > Any other suggestions would be appreciated.<br>
> ><br>
> > -Narahari<br>
> ><br>
<br>
</div></div>Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
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