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Problem booting after downloading latest update. - Arrocuda - 07-18-2016



Re: Problem booting after downloading latest update. - Arrocuda - 07-18-2016



Re: Problem booting after downloading latest update. - Arrocuda - 07-18-2016

There is more but that is most all of it.  The PC is a Fujitsu Amilo 1703 (AMD 64), and is running Lite 2.8.  Can anyone give me any pointers as to what might be the cause of the problem?

Tx

Tim

Re: Problem booting after downloading latest update. - trinidad - 07-18-2016

You're probably going to have to zero this drive and start over. It's probably has/had a bad sector for a while, and used up all the reallocation space.

http://serverfault.com/questions/407007/what-do-these-disk-errors-in-syslog-mean

TC

Re: Problem booting after downloading latest update. - LL-user - 07-19-2016

Hi Tim

In addition to trinidad's advice:
  • Backup your data!
Something you are hopefully doing on a regular basis anyway Smile Each single hard drive will die at some stage. It's only a question when.
  • Run a health test on your hard drive.
Maybe it's time to replace it.

Hope that helps Smile

Re: Problem booting after downloading latest update. - Arrocuda - 07-19-2016

Ran the badblock utility and it threw up almost 4000 errors,  :-\  All clear for the first 14 g/b then error after error in consecutively numbered blocks of four.  Looks as though the HDD is well on its way out.  I can't complain cos I acquired this laptop off of my partner when she decided it was too big and decided to treat herself to a new notebook a few years back.  Not the most powerful machine I have, but has been a useful spare laptop for lesser duties.

Will be loading Lite on the replacement.  Deffo the best of the lightweight distro's for general purpose use and I must have tried most all of them by now.

Thanks for the heads up....

Tim