[wellylug] Repairing Ubuntu

[John Durham]

Jethro Carr wrote:
> 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
Just confirmed the primary hard drive is dead. The secondary has an old 
copy of Win 98 on it. The hardware will work, but it's no longer any 
kind of server. Maybe it would be better to put a newer drive in and 
install Ubuntu 8.4 or wait for the latest one.

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