[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?
Found a 20GB drive and installed it. The drive already had a copy of 
Xubuntu on it so there were some off messages on boot.
Looks like I need to reinstall to account for the change of hardware.
> If it's suddenly not even getting to the grub boot loader, then I'd
> suspect a hardware failure of your server.
You were right about the server area. That is now no more. Let's hope it 
responds well to  a re-install.
On the server side, that is out of my area so I'll need personal help 
from a server man. Thankfully the main web server next to it was not 
affected.

On boot the system gave some interesting messages.
"fsck died with exit status 4"
A manual fsck should be performed in maintenance mode with the root file 
system in read only mode.
What can you tell me about this please?
> regards,
> jethro
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