it sounds more like intrusion than hardware failure. On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> The precursor may or may not be related. > > I discovered that my wife's gmail had been accessed by an iphone on Nov, > 1. We have no iphone, and were home alone at the time listed. So I > changed the pass word. Then tried to open firefox. Would not load. > Nothing would work, except the mouse pointer would move around. Had to use > the power button to restart. Now I get error: attempt to read or write > outside of disk 'hd0'. Entering rescue mode. grub rescue> > > Yesterday the computer froze in a similar fashion when my wife was looking > at email in evolution. A power switch intervention was required, but it > booted fine at that time. > > So the two incidents point to hardware problems or intrusion? > > I have googled for grub rescue recovery, but what I found was aimed at > people with more understanding than I have. > > Are there suggestions that someone here can offer? > > thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
