[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

[Jethro Carr]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 14:34 +1200, John Durham wrote:
> Well, let's just add that the system no longer boots from the hard 
> drive, so the live CD became the only alternative.
> Even then it tried and failed repeatedly to boot from CD.
> This machine has been fine for a long time. Now it is acting like a 
> retirement case. The hard drive light is active on power up, but nothing 
> starts. After that it sits there and consumes power.

ok, that's a bit more useful. :-)

Do you manage to boot to the grub boot loader? Are you able to start
Linux at all?

If it's suddenly not even getting to the grub bootloader, then I'd
suspect a hardware failure of your server.


regards,
jethro

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Jethro Carr
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