On Sunday, October 09, 2011 03:53:46 PM ryan villa wrote: > Cool thanks Jeff, I appreciate the help. This netbook has a hard drive so I > think I'm going to try that. For future reference, what do you think > happened? It sounds like to me something happened to the GRUB where it > couldn't find the os but not really sure.
I don't know and I don't care to speculate. I will say that though I read your initial post on the problem from beginning to end I had a bit of a problem after your words: > I changed the password, and when my computer > went to sleep, it wouldn't accept my new or old password. I remember lots of problems with Linux and 'sleep'; that made it hard for me to concentrate on anything else, though perhaps I'm being way too simplistic. And then I got to the story of your dog. It appears from your comments that the computer was still on after it hit the ground, and that it looks like the hard disk was undamaged. If so, my second option should work; it could just be software damage to the drive; perhaps only to grub. Those mount errors don't tell us much as you'll see that kind of error any time a drive is open on a mount point. So you could try a mount from a cold boot; my understanding is you tried that. I'm not an expert on the internals of Grub but my understanding is it's easy to break, and I've broken it a few times in my life (and never figured out why). Another thing I just thought of: you can try rebuilding grub, but I wouldn't do that until/unless I got a successful backup, unless that's impossible (drive damage?), in which case rebuilding grub probably wouldn't help anyway. There's always a possibility the drive is physically damaged from the fall, in which case I hope you already have a backup. Note I'm pretty good at servers (we maintain a few hundred servers for a bunch of webhosting companies), but I hate Linux on the desktop/netbook/laptop with a passion. Though obviously not as much as I hate all the alternatives, as I still use linux everywhere. An on servers, if there's a chance a drive is bad, we just replace it. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
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