[ale] Boot issue coming back again

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Ok, the nst image did not work.  So got fed up.

Finally made bios optimized settings, restarted the box.

This time success.  Now the machine mythubuntu works and good enough too.

Its the backend server and I have mounted the other windoze drive as an
auxillary drive thru the /etc/fstab.

Hopefull mythtv can be made to see that folder.

Thank you all for the various ideas and support through out.

-Narahari

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 15:44 -0500, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> > Oops.  Made a mistake in my typing.
>
> > Instead of I connected the NTFS drive by itself, it should read I
> > connected
> > the NON-NTFS drive by itself.
>
> Ah...  Makes a big difference.
>
> I think I had some suggestions in an earlier posting.
>
> What are the make, model, and interface of these drives?
>
> Can you burn an NST minimal CD and boot it?
>
> http://www.networksecuritytoolkit.org
>
> Advantage to this toolkit is that it's designed to be complete unto
> itself as a run-live and be able to do forensic work and analytical work
> that could involve tearing into an unknown drive or hardware.
>
> Try booting it to console or server mode.
>
> If you can't boot it I would love to know how far you got.
>
> If you can (there will be no graphical interface on the minimal) then
> you can log in and run some tests and post the results.
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cat /proc/partitions
> sfdisk -l /dev/sda
> sfdisk -R /dev/sda (this forces a partition table reread)
> cat /proc/partitions (it's possible that this might be different now)
> smartctl -i /dev/sda
> hdparm /dev/sda
> sdparm /dev/sda
>
> You can save those off to a USB drive so you're not retyping everything.
>
> This won't solve it but it could go a long way toward figuring out what
> it is.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Narahari 'n' Savitha
> > <savithari at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> > > Friends:
> > >
> > > The title of this was
> > > Boot issues - OR - why Mafia$oft hurts/disappoints everyone
> > endlessly
> > > Its time to provide update on where I am on the
> > Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Ubuntu
> > > Server/MythUbuntu/MythDora installs on the troubled machine of 2 HD
> > setup.
> > >
> > > I removed both drives.  Then I connected the NTFS drive just by
> > itself.
> > > Installed MythUbuntu and all went fine (had some cd issues but
> > finally burnt
> > > one at 1X speed and got it to work).
> > >
> > > After install, restarted machine and went back to the infamous
> > UNABLE TO
> > > SYNC VFS UKNOWN BLOCK error.
> > >
> > > I then downloaded Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test cd and ran a complete
> > test
> > > of the drive to check for any defects.  NO DEFECTS FOUND.  So drive
> > seems to
> > > be fine.
> > >
> > > One more thing left, I will wipe the drive clean tonight and try it
> > again.
> > > I will also send the screen shot so folks can take a look at that as
> > well.
> > >
> > > I may try DEBIAN also, but first I will wipe the drive clean.
> > >
> > > Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > -Narahari
> > >
>
> Regards,
> Mike
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